Luke 9:24

24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.

Luke 9:24 in Other Translations

KJV
24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
ESV
24 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
NLT
24 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
MSG
24 Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.
CSB
24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will save it.

Luke 9:24 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 9:24

For whosoever will save his life
(See Gill on Matthew 16:25).

Luke 9:24 In-Context

22 And he said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”
23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
25 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?
26 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

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