Matthew 16:25 - Compare All Versions

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

For whoever wishes to save his life [in this world] will [eventually] lose it [through death], but whoever loses his life [in this world] for My sake will find it [that is, life with Me for all eternity].

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.