Mark 8:35

Bible in Basic English 1965

Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.

Matthew 10:39

He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

Matthew 16:25

Because whoever has a desire to keep his life safe will have it taken from him; but whoever gives up his life because of me, will have it given back to him.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

Mark 8:36

What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?

Luke 17:33

If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.

Luke 9:24

For whoever has a desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, but whoever gives up his life because of me, will keep it.

Acts 20:24

But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

Acts 21:13

Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 9:16

For I will make clear to him what troubles he will have to undergo for me.

1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.

2 Corinthians 12:10

So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

2 Timothy 1:8

Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;

Hebrews 11:35

Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;

Revelation 12:11

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

Revelation 2:10

Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 7:14

And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.