Matthew 16:25

Legacy Standard Bible

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Cross References

Esther 4:14

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not reached royalty for such a time as this?”

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time to search and a time to lose; A time to keep and a time to throw away.

Matthew 10:39

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mark 8:35

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.

Luke 17:33

Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

John 12:25

He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.

Revelation 12:11

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their witness, and they did not love their life even to death.