Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life because of me and the good-news, this man will save it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
36For what will it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
Cross References
Esther 4:11All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except th
Jeremiah 26:20And there was also a man who prophesied in the name of LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim. And he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
Matthew 10:22And ye will be hated by all men because of my name, but he who endures to the end, this man will be saved.
Matthew 16:25For whoever wants save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
Luke 6:22Blessed are ye, when men will hate you, and when they will exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, because of the Son of man.
Luke 17:33Whoever will seek to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose it will keep it alive.
Matthew Henry on Mark 8:28-38
Peter's Enlightened Testimony; Peter Rebuked. 27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Cæsarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? 28 And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets. 29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. 30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. 31 And he began to teach them, that the… Read the whole commentary →