Mark 8:35
For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s shall save it.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
36For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
Cross References
Esther 4:11All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
Jeremiah 26:20And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
Matthew 10:22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.
Matthew 16:25For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Luke 6:22Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
Luke 17:33Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life 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 →