Matthew 16:25

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Esther 4:14

For if you remain silent at this time, protection and deliverance for the Jews will be ordained from some other place, but you and your father’s house shall be destroyed. And who knows if you may have attained royal position for such a time as this?”

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews who can be found in Susa, then fast for me. Stop eating and drinking for three days, night or day. I and my young women will fast likewise. Only then would I dare go to the king since it is not allowed by law, and if I perish, I perish.”

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 10:39

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses 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 loses his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mark 8:35

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.

Luke 17:33

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

John 12:25

He who loves his life will lose it. And he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

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.