Luke 17:33
Whoever will seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever will lose his life, shall save it.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
34I say to you, on that night two men shall be in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Cross References
Matthew 10:39He that finds his life shall lose it; and he that loses his life for my sake, shall find it.
Mark 8:35For whoever will save his life, shall lose it; but whoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, shall save it.
John 12:25He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to eternal life.
Matthew Henry on Luke 17:21-37
The Progress of Christ's Kingdom; Destruction of Jerusalem. 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. 22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not… Read the whole commentary →