For whoever chooses to save his lower life will lose his higher life, but whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will save his higher life.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep, and if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and continue to look for the lost one until he finds it?

and when he reaches home he calls in his friends and neighbors, and says to them, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!'

And when she finds it, she calls in her friends and neighbors, and says, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found the coin which I lost!'

because this son of mine was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found!' So they began to celebrate.

But we just had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found.'"

Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will preserve it.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the people that are lost."