Mark 8:35 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁵ For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁵ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁵ For whoever wants to save his [higher, spiritual, eternal] life, will lose it [the lower, natural, temporal life which is lived only on earth]; and whoever gives up his life [which is lived only on earth] for My sake and the Gospel's will save it [his higher, spiritual life in the eternal kingdom of God].

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁵ For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s shall save it.

Common English Bible

³⁵ All who want to save their lives will lose them. But all who lose their lives because of me and because of the good news will save them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁵ For whoever will have chosen to save his life, will lose it. But whoever will have lost his life, for my sake and for the Gospel, shall save it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁵ For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it.

Mark 8:35 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:6

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

Matthew 10:22

and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 10:39

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:25

For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 19:29

And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

Mark 8:36

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Luke 17:33

Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Luke 9:24

For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it.

Acts 20:24

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Acts 21:13

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 9:16

for I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”

1 Corinthians 9:23

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

2 Corinthians 12:10

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Timothy 1:8

Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God,

Hebrews 11:35

Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life.

Revelation 12:11

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Revelation 2:10

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

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.