For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it.

Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.

"Which of you men, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in their pasture and go in search of the lost one till he finds it?

Then coming home he calls his friends and neighbours together, and says, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my sheep--the one I had lost.'

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, and says, "'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

for my son here was dead and has come to life again: he was lost and has been found.' "And they began to be merry.

We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'"

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 also taught them by a parable that they must always pray and never lose heart.

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