Matthew 16:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Matthew 16:25 Cross References

Esther 4:14

For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Ecclesiastes 3:6

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

Matthew 10:39

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

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?

Mark 8:35

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

Luke 17:33

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

John 12:25

He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal 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.