10 Bible Verses about Losing One's Life

To save your life is to lose it, and to lose your life for my sake is to save it.

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall find it.

For whoever is bent on securing his life will lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, will secure it.

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it.

Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

He who holds his life dear, is destroying it; and he who makes his life of no account in this world shall keep it to the Life of the Ages.

Why, what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give to buy back his life?

Why, what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.

Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss. Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,