Luke 9:24

For whoever wishes to save their life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake, loses his life – that person will save it.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

23And to all present he said, “If any one wishes to walk in my steps, they must renounce self, and take up their cross daily, and follow me.

25What good does it do someone if, when they has gained the whole world, they has lost or forfeited themselves?

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Cross References

John 12:25A person who loves their life loses it; while someone who hates their life in the present world will preserve it for eternal life.

Hebrews 11:35Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.

Revelation 12:11Their victory was due to the blood of the Lamb, and to the message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.

Matthew Henry on Luke 9:19-28

Peter's Enlightened Testimony;Self-Denial Enjoined. 18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am? 19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again. 20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God. 21 And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing; 22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer… Read the whole commentary →

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