Luke 9:24 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²⁴ For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ For whoever would preserve his life and save it will lose and destroy it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he will preserve and save it [from the penalty of eternal death].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Common English Bible

²⁴ All who want to save their lives will lose them. But all who lose their lives because of me will save them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ For whoever will have saved his life, will lose it. Yet whoever will have lost his life for my sake, will save it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it; for he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall save it.

Luke 9:24 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

Matthew 10:39

Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

Luke 17:33

Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it.

John 12:25

Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Hebrews 11:35

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection.

Revelation 12:11

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.

Revelation 2:10

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Beware, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.