Luke 17:33
Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever ‘wastes’ it will preserve it.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
34I tell you: on that night there will be two men in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
Cross References
Matthew 10:39The one ‘finding’ his life will lose it, and the one ‘losing’ his life for my sake will find it.
Mark 8:35Because whoever may resolve to ‘save’ his life will waste it; but whoever may ‘waste’ his life for my sake and the Gospel's, he will save it.
John 12:25The one ‘loving’ his life will waste it, and the one ‘hating’ his life, in this world, will preserve it into 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 →