For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me, this person will save it.

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it?

And [when he] returns to [his] home, he calls together [his] friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!'

And [when she] has found [it], she calls together [her] friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I had lost!'

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again! He was lost and is found!' And they began to celebrate.

But it was necessary to celebrate and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead, and is alive, and was lost, and is found!'"

Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses [it] will keep it.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost."