Luke 9:24

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

Text-Critical English NT

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

23Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to be one of my disciples, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

25For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

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Cross References

John 12:25Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Hebrews 11:35Women received back their dead by resurrection. Other people were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Revelation 12:11They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so as to shy away 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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