Mark 8:35

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

Will save

General references

Matthew 10:39

Matthew 16:25

Luke 17:33

Bible References

Will save

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 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.

But even the sacrifice of my life I count as nothing, if only I may perfect my earthly course, and be faithful to the duty which the Lord Jesus has entrusted to me of proclaiming, as of supreme importance, the Good News of God's grace.

His reply was, "What can you mean by thus breaking my heart with your grief? Why, as for me, I am ready not only to go to Jerusalem and be put in chains, but even to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

Faithful is the saying: "If we died with Him, we shall also live with Him;

I for my part am like a drink-offering which is already being poured out; and the time for my departure is now close at hand.

Women received back their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were put to death with torture, refusing the deliverance offered to them--that they might secure a better resurrection.

Dismiss your fears concerning all that you are about to suffer. I tell you that the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison that you may be put to the test, and for ten days you will have to endure persecution. Be faithful to the End, even if you have to die, and then I will give you the victor's Wreath of Life.

"My lord, you know," I replied. "They are those," he said, "who have just passed through the great distress, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

But they have gained the victory over him because of the blood of the Lamb and of the testimony which they have borne, and because they held their lives cheap and did not shrink even from death.

General references

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.

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