Luke 17:33
Whoever willeth to save his life shall lose it, and whoever is willing to lose his life shall save it.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
34I tell you, that in that night two shall be in one bed; the one shall be taken and the other left.
Cross References
Matthew 10:39Whosoever will find his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Mark 8:35For every one who willeth to save his life shall lose it; and every one who shall lose his life on account of me and on account of my gospel, shall save it.
John 12:25He who loveth his life shall lose it; and he who hateth his life in this world shall keep it to the life which is eternal.
Matthew Henry on Luke 17:21-37
The Progress of Christ's Kingdom; Destruction of Jerusalem. 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. 22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not… Read the whole commentary →