For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Matthew 16:25 - English Standard Version 2016 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake 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. |
For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.