Mark 8:35

New International Version

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:23

I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

2 Timothy 1:8

So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God.

Luke 17:33

Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.

Matthew 16:25

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me 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 sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 10:39

Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

2 Corinthians 12:10

That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Acts 9:16

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

Luke 9:24

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.

Revelation 12:11

They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

Matthew 10:22

You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.

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 persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.

Acts 21:13

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

Revelation 7:14

I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Hebrews 11:35

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.

Acts 20:24

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

Mark 8:36

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,