Matthew 16:25
For if you want to save your life you will lose it, and if you lose your life for my sake you will save it.
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Esther 4:14If you stay silent right now, help and rescue will come to the Jews from some other place, and you and your relatives will die. Who knows—it could be you came to be queen for such a time as this!”
Ecclesiastes 3:6A time of searching, and a time of giving up searching. A time of keeping, and a time of throwing away.
Mark 8:35If you want to save your life you will lose it, but if you lose your life because of me and the good news you will save it.
John 12:25If you love your own life you will lose it, but if you don't love your own life in this world you will keep your life forever.
Revelation 12:11They conquered him through the blood of the Lamb and through their personal testimony—they did not love their lives so much that they were willing to die if necessary.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 16:25-28
The Value of the Soul. 24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man… Read the whole commentary →