Matthew 16:25

Good News Translation (US Version)

For if you want to save your own life, you will lose it; but if you lose your life for my sake, you will find it.

Cross References

Matthew 10:39

Those who try to gain their own life will lose it; but those who lose their life for my sake will gain it.

Revelation 12:11

They won the victory over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the truth which they proclaimed; and they were willing to give up their lives and die.

Mark 8:35

For if you want to save your own life, you will lose it; but if you lose your life for me and for the gospel, you will save it.

John 12:25

Those who love their own life will lose it; those who hate their own life in this world will keep it for life eternal.

Luke 17:33

Those who try to save their own life will lose it; those who lose their life will save it.

Esther 4:16

“Go and get all the Jews in Susa together; hold a fast and pray for me. Don't eat or drink anything for three days and nights. My servant women and I will be doing the same. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. If I must die for doing it, I will die.”

Esther 4:14

If you keep quiet at a time like this, help will come from heaven to the Jews, and they will be saved, but you will die and your father's family will come to an end. Yet who knows—maybe it was for a time like this that you were made queen!”

Matthew 16:26

Will you gain anything if you win the whole world but lose your life? Of course not! There is nothing you can give to regain your life.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

He sets the time for finding and the time for losing, the time for saving and the time for throwing away,