Luke 9:24
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake, loses his life — that man shall save it.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
25What good does it do a man if, when he has gained the whole world, he has lost or forfeited himself?
Cross References
John 12:25He who loves his life loses it; while he who hates his life in the present world shall preserve it for Immortal Life.
Hebrews 11:35Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.
Revelation 12:11Their victory was due to the Blood of the Lamb, and to the Message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.
Matthew Henry on Luke 9:19-28
Peter's Enlightened Testimony;Self-Denial Enjoined. 18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am? 19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again. 20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God. 21 And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing; 22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer… Read the whole commentary →