Mark 8:35

Weymouth NT

For whoever is bent on securing his life will lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, will secure it.

Cross References

Matthew 10:22

And you will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name; but he who holds out to the End–he will be saved.

Matthew 10:39

To save your life is to lose it, and to lose your life for my sake is to save it.

Matthew 16:25

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall find it.

Matthew 19:29

And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.

Mark 8:36

Why, what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Luke 17:33

Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Luke 9:24

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it.

Acts 20:24

But even the sacrifice of my life I count as nothing, if only I may perfect my earthly course, and be faithful to the duty which the Lord Jesus has entrusted to me of proclaiming, as of supreme importance, the Good News of God's grace.

Acts 21:13

His reply was, »What can you mean by thus breaking my heart with your grief? Why, as for me, I am ready not only to go to Jerusalem and be put in chains, but even to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus.«

Acts 9:16

For I will let him know the great sufferings which he must pass through for My sake.«

1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.

2 Corinthians 12:10

In fact I take pleasure in infirmities, in the bearing of insults, in distress, in persecutions, in grievous difficulties–for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Timothy 1:8

Do not be ashamed then to bear witness for our Lord and for me His prisoner; but rather share suffering with me in the service of the Good News, strengthened by the power of God.

Hebrews 11:35

Women received back their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were put to death with torture, refusing the deliverance offered to them–that they might secure a better resurrection.

Revelation 12:11

But they have gained the victory over him because of the blood of the Lamb and of the testimony which they have borne, and because they held their lives cheap and did not shrink even from death.

Revelation 2:10

Dismiss your fears concerning all that you are about to suffer. I tell you that the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison that you may be put to the test, and for ten days you will have to endure persecution. Be faithful to the End, even if you have to die, and then I will give you the victor's Wreath of Life.

Revelation 7:14

»My lord, you know,« I replied. »They are those,« he said, »who have just passed through the great distress, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.