Matthew 16:25

New Century Version

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.

Cross References

Esther 4:14

If you keep quiet at this time, someone else will help and save the Jewish people, but you and your father’s family will all die. And who knows, you may have been chosen queen for just such a time as this.”

Esther 4:16

“Go and get all the Jewish people in Susa together. For my sake, fast; do not eat or drink for three days, night and day. I and my servant girls will also fast. Then I will go to the king, even though it is against the law, and if I die, I die.”

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 10:39

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 16:26

It is worthless to have the whole world if they lose their souls. They could never pay enough to buy back their souls.

Mark 8:35

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.

Luke 17:33

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

John 12:25

Those who love their lives will lose them, but those who hate their lives in this world will keep true life forever.

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.