Luke 9:24 - Tree of Life Version

²⁴ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

More versions

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.

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 discard;

Matthew 10:39

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

Luke 17:33

Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

John 12:25

He who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it forever.

Hebrews 11:35

Women received their dead raised back to life; and others were tortured, after not accepting release, so they might obtain a better resurrection.

Revelation 12:11

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even in the face of 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, so that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.