Mark 8:35

Modern English Version

For whoever would save his life will lose it. But whoever would lose his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek out, and a time to give up; a time to guard, and a time to cast away;

Matthew 10:22

You will be hated by all men for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 10:39

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

Matthew 16:25

For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for My name’s sake shall receive a hundred times as much and inherit eternal life.

Mark 8:36

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Luke 17:33

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

Luke 9:24

For whoever will save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

Acts 20:24

But none of these things deter me. Nor do I count my life of value to myself, so that I may joyfully finish my course and the ministry which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Acts 21:13

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 9:16

For I will show him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake.”

1 Corinthians 9:23

This I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might partake of it with you.

2 Corinthians 12:10

So I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in hardships, in persecutions, and in distresses for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Timothy 1:8

So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, His prisoner. But share in the sufferings of the gospel by the power of God,

Hebrews 11:35

Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured and did not accept deliverance, so that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Revelation 12:11

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Revelation 2:10

Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, “Sir, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of great persecution and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.