Mark 8:35

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's, will save it.

English Majority Text (NT)

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 having summoned the crowd together with His disciples, He said to them, “Whoever is willing to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

36For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul?

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22And you will be hated by all people for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Matthew 16:25For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of Me shall find it.

Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, 1 And when they shall exclude you, 1 And shall revile you, and cast out your name as evil, 1 Because of the Son of Man. 1

Luke 17:33Whoever seeks to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life 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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