Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel, will save it.
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36What does it profit a person to gain the whole world and then forfeit his life?
Cross References
Esther 4:11She said, “All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner courtyard without being summoned, there is only one law: That he must be put to death—except for anyone to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. I have not been called to come to the king these thirty days.”
Jeremiah 26:20Meanwhile there was another man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh—Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim—he also prophesied against this city and this land, agreeing with all of Jeremiah's words.
Matthew 10:22You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But whoever endures to the end, that person will be saved.
Matthew 16:25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Luke 6:22Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
Luke 17:33Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will save 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 →