Matthew 16:25

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For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

Cross References

Esther 4:14

For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.”

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

Matthew 10:39

Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

Mark 8:35

For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.

Luke 17:33

Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it.

John 12:25

Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Revelation 12:11

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.