Matthew 16:25

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, you will save it.

Cross References

Esther 4:14

If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”

Esther 4:16

“Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”

Ecclesiastes 3:6

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

Matthew 10:39

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

Matthew 16:26

And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?

Mark 8:35

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.

Luke 17:33

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

John 12:25

Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity.

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.