For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?*
Matthew 16:25 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose 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 remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?*
*Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which 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;
He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who 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 life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.