Matthew 16:25 - Tree of Life Version

²⁵ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but 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 remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place—but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows whether you have attained royal status for such a time as this?”

Esther 4:16

“Go! Gather together all the Jews who are in Shushan and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast in the same way. Afterwards, I will go in to the king, even though it is not according to the law. So 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 discard;

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 but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mark 8:35

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the sake of the Good News will save 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.

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.