For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!’

for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and was lost and has been found.’”

Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”