Mark 8:35

Good News Translation

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.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:6

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

Matthew 10:22

Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.

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.

Matthew 16:25

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.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake, will receive a hundred times more and will be given eternal life.

Mark 8:36

Do you gain anything if you win the whole world but lose your life? Of course not!

Luke 17:33

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

Luke 9:24

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

Acts 20:24

But I reckon my own life to be worth nothing to me; I only want to complete my mission and finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do, which is to declare the Good News about the grace of God.

Acts 21:13

But he answered, “What are you doing, crying like this and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be tied up in Jerusalem but even to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 9:16

And I myself will show him all that he must suffer for my sake.”

1 Corinthians 9:23

All this I do for the gospel's sake, in order to share in its blessings.

2 Corinthians 12:10

I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Timothy 1:8

Do not be ashamed, then, of witnessing for our Lord; neither be ashamed of me, a prisoner for Christ's sake. Instead, take your part in suffering for the Good News, as God gives you the strength for it.

Hebrews 11:35

Through faith women received their dead relatives raised back to life. Others, refusing to accept freedom, died under torture in order to be raised to a better life.

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.

Revelation 2:10

Don't be afraid of anything you are about to suffer. Listen! The Devil will put you to the test by having some of you thrown into prison, and your troubles will last ten days. Be faithful to me, even if it means death, and I will give you life as your prize of victory.

Revelation 7:14

“I don't know, sir. You do,” I answered. He said to me, “These are the people who have come safely through the terrible persecution. They have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb.