Mark 8:35

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

Text-Critical English 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

34Then he called the crowd over, along with his disciples, and said to them, “ Whoever wants to be one of my disciples must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

36For what will it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul?

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22You will be hated by all because of my name, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 16:25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Luke 6:22Blessed are you when others hate you, when they exclude you, reproach you, and spurn your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.

Luke 17:33Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will 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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