If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.’
Matthew 16:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For whoever is bent on saving his [temporal] life [his comfort and security here] shall lose it [eternal life]; and whoever loses his life [his comfort and security here] for My sake shall find it [life everlasting]. American Standard Version (1901) For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. Common English Bible All who want to save their lives will lose them. But all who lose their lives because of me will find them. Catholic Public Domain Version For whoever would save his life, will lose it. But whoever will have lost his life for my sake, shall find it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it. |
If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.’
‘Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my female servants will also fast in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law. If I perish, I perish.’
a time to search and a time to count as lost; a time to keep and a time to throw away;
Anyone who finds his life will lose it, and anyone who loses his life because of me will find it.
For what will it benefit someone if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will anyone give in exchange for his life?
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the gospel will save it.
Whoever tries to make his life secure , will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; for they did not love their lives to the point of death.