Mark 8:35

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever, for my sake and the gospel’s, loses his life will save it.

Montgomery New Testament

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 summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said. "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

36For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life?

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22"You will be hated by all men because of my name; and he who endures to the end shall be saved.

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

Luke 6:22"Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.

Luke 17:33"Whoever seeks to keep his life shall lose it; but whoever loses it shall 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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