For if you are completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house shall be destroyed. And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time like this?
Matthew 16:25 - Modern King James Version For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever desires to lose his life for My sake shall 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 are completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house shall be destroyed. And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time like this?
Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, night or day. My maidservants and I will also fast in the same way. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I perish, I perish.
a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
He who finds his life shall lose it. And he who loses his life for My sake shall find it.
For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
For whoever will save his life shall lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for My sake and the gospel's, he shall save it.
Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.
And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony. And they did not love their soul until death.