Matthew 16:25 - Easy To Read Version

²⁵ The person that wants to save his life will lose it. And every person that gives his life for me will save it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ For whoever is bent on saving his [temporal] life [his comfort and security here] shall lose it [eternal life]; and whoever loses his life [his comfort and security here] for My sake shall find it [life everlasting].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Common English Bible

²⁵ All who want to save their lives will lose them. But all who lose their lives because of me will find them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ For whoever would save his life, will lose it. But whoever will have lost his life for my sake, shall find it.

Matthew 16:25 Cross References

Esther 4:14

If you keep quiet now, help and freedom for the Jews will come from another place. But you and your father’s family will all die. And who knows, maybe you have been chosen to be the queen for such a time as this?”

Ecclesiastes 3:6

There is a time to look for something,\par and a time to consider it lost.\par There is a time to keep things,\par and a time to throw things away.\par

Matthew 10:39

Any person that loves his life \{more than he loves me\} will lose true life. Any person that gives up his life for me will find true life.

Matthew 16:26

It is worth nothing for a person to have the whole world, if he loses his soul. A person could never pay enough to buy back his soul.

Luke 17:33

The person that tries to save his life will lose it. But the person that gives his life away will save it.

John 12:25

The person that loves his own life will lose it. But the person that hates his life in this world will keep it. He will have life forever.

Revelation 12:11

Our brothers defeated him by the blood (death) of the Lamb and by the message \{of God\} they told people. They did not love their lives too much. They were not afraid of death.