Matthew 16:25 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁵ For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall 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 thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house shall perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Esther 4:16

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to 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 that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Matthew 16:26

For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Mark 8:35

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.

Luke 17:33

Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

John 12:25

He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Revelation 12:11

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.