“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.”
— WEB
Matthew 16:25
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“For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”
— KJV
“For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.”
— ASV
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Commentary
For whosoever will save--is minded to save, or bent on saving. his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it--(See on Mat 10:38-39). "A suffering and dying Messiah liketh you ill; but what if His servants shall meet the same fate? They may not; but who follows Me must be prepared for the worst."
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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