For whoever desires to save his life and preserve it by avoiding the cross will lose it eternally, but whoever loses his life for the sake of Me and the gospel will find it and gain eternal life.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
NMV“Everyone who wishes to save his soul will lose it for my sake, and he who loses his life in this world for my sake will save his soul for the life of the world to come”.
OJBFor whoever wishes to save his nefesh shall lose it; but whoever loses his nefesh on account of me shall find it.
T4TYou must do that, because those who try to save their lives by denying that they belong to me when people want to kill them for believing in me will not live eternally, but those who are killed because of being my disciples will live with God eternally.