Mark 8:35

For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

36For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

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Cross References

Esther 4:11,11All the king's servants, and all the provinces that are under his dominion, know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, cometh into the king's inner court, who is not called for, is immediately to be put to death without any delay: except the king shall hold out the golden sceptre to him, in token of clemency, that so he may live. How then can I go in to the king, who for these thirty days now have not been called unto him?

Jeremiah 26:20There was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urias the son of Semei of Cariathiarim: and he prophesied against this city, and against this land, according to all the words of Jeremias.

Matthew 10:22And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.

Matthew 16:25For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

Luke 6:22Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

Luke 17:33Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, shall preserve 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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