Luke 9:24 - Catholic Public Domain Version

For whoever will have saved his life, will lose it. Yet whoever will have lost his life for my sake, will save it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For whoever would preserve his life and save it will lose and destroy it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he will preserve and save it [from the penalty of eternal death].

American Standard Version (1901)

For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Common English Bible

All who want to save their lives will lose them. But all who lose their lives because of me will save them.