Mark 8:35

New Century Version

Those who want to save their lives will give up true life. But those who give up their lives for me and for the Good News will have true life.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:6

There is a time to look for something and a time to stop looking for it. There is a time to keep things and a time to throw things away.

Matthew 10:22

All people will hate you because you follow me, but those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved.

Matthew 10:39

Those who try to hold on to their lives will give up true life. Those who give up their lives for me will hold on to true life.

Matthew 16:25

Those who want to save their lives will give up true life, and those who give up their lives for me will have true life.

Matthew 19:29

And all those who have left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or farms to follow me will get much more than they left, and they will have life forever.

Mark 8:36

It is worthless to have the whole world if they lose their souls.

Luke 17:33

Those who try to keep their lives will lose them. But those who give up their lives will save them.

Luke 9:24

Those who want to save their lives will give up true life. But those who give up their lives for me will have true life.

Acts 20:24

I don’t care about my own life. The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me—to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.

Acts 21:13

But he said, “Why are you crying and making me so sad? I am not only ready to be tied up in Jerusalem, I am ready to die for the Lord Jesus!”

Acts 9:16

I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”

1 Corinthians 9:23

I do all this because of the Good News and so I can share in its blessings.

2 Corinthians 12:10

For this reason I am happy when I have weaknesses, insults, hard times, sufferings, and all kinds of troubles for Christ. Because when I am weak, then I am truly strong.

2 Timothy 1:8

So do not be ashamed to tell people about our Lord Jesus, and do not be ashamed of me, in prison for the Lord. But suffer with me for the Good News. God, who gives us the strength to do that,

Hebrews 11:35

Women received their dead relatives raised back to life. Others were tortured and refused to accept their freedom so they could be raised from the dead to a better life.

Revelation 12:11

And our brothers and sisters defeated him by the blood of the Lamb’s death and by the message they preached. They did not love their lives so much that they were afraid of death.

Revelation 2:10

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer for ten days. But be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 7:14

I answered, “You know, sir.” And the elder said to me, “These are the people who have come out of the great distress. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.