for whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he shall save it.

For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?

What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.

Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?

and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.

for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.

for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.