Mark 8:35

35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

Mark 8:35 In-Context

33 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men."
34 He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
36 For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
37 For what should a man give in exchange for his life?
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