For whoever will save his life shall lose it, but whoever will lose his life for My sake, he shall save it.

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

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

And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.

for this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

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