Mark 8:35

For whoever will save his life, shall lose it; but whoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, shall save it.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

34And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them: Whoever determines to follow after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

36For what will it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own life?

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22And you will be hated by all men on my account: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

Matthew 16:25For whoever will save his life, shall lose it. But whoever will lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and shall withdraw themselves from you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man.

Luke 17:33Whoever will seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever will lose his life, shall save it.

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 →

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