Mark 8:35

New Living Translation

If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away.

Matthew 10:22

And all nations will hate you because you are my followers. But everyone who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 10:39

If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.

Matthew 16:25

If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as much in return and will inherit eternal life.

Mark 8:36

And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?

Luke 17:33

If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.

Luke 9:24

If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.

Acts 20:24

But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.

Acts 21:13

But he said, “Why all this weeping? You are breaking my heart! I am ready not only to be jailed at Jerusalem but even to die for the sake of the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 9:16

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

1 Corinthians 9:23

I do everything to spread the Good News and share in its blessings.

2 Corinthians 12:10

That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Timothy 1:8

So never be ashamed to tell others about our Lord. And don’t be ashamed of me, either, even though I’m in prison for him. With the strength God gives you, be ready to suffer with me for the sake of the Good News.

Hebrews 11:35

Women received their loved ones back again from death. But others were tortured, refusing to turn from God in order to be set free. They placed their hope in a better life after the resurrection.

Revelation 12:11

And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony. And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

Revelation 2:10

Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil will throw some of you into prison to test you. You will suffer for ten days. But if you remain faithful even when facing death, I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 7:14

And I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.