a time to seek and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to discard;
Mark 8:35 - Tree of Life Version For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the sake of the Good News will save it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For whoever wants to save his [higher, spiritual, eternal] life, will lose it [the lower, natural, temporal life which is lived only on earth]; and whoever gives up his life [which is lived only on earth] for My sake and the Gospel's will save it [his higher, spiritual life in the eternal kingdom of God]. American Standard Version (1901) For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s shall save it. Common English Bible All who want to save their lives will lose them. But all who lose their lives because of me and because of the good news will save them. Catholic Public Domain Version For whoever will have chosen to save his life, will lose it. But whoever will have lost his life, for my sake and for the Gospel, shall save it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it. |
a time to seek and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to discard;
And you will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end shall be saved.
He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for My name’s sake, will receive a hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
However, I don’t consider my life of any value, except that I might finish my course and the office I received from the Lord Yeshua, to declare the Good News of the grace of God.
Then Paul responded, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but to die for the name of the Lord Yeshua!”
I do it all for the sake of the Good News, so that I might be a fellow partaker of it.
For Messiah’s sake, then, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but share in suffering for the Good News according to the power of God.
Women received their dead raised back to life; and others were tortured, after not accepting release, so they might obtain a better resurrection.
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even in the face of death.
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, so that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Then he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.