John 12:25

Webster's Bible (1833)

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 10:39 : 39 He who finds his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
  • Matt 16:25 : 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
  • 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.
  • Luke 17:33 : 33 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
  • Luke 9:23-24 : 23 He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,{TR, NU add "daily"} and follow me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
  • Rev 12:11 : 11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Gospel of the grace of God.
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

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  • Matt 16:24-26
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    24Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

    25For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

    26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

  • Luke 9:23-25
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    85%

    23He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,{TR, NU add "daily"} and follow me.

    24For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

    25For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

  • Matt 10:37-39
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    85%

    37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

    38He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me.

    39He who finds his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

  • Luke 17:33
    84%

    33Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

  • Mark 8:35-37
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    35For 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.

    36For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

    37For what will a man give in exchange for his life?

  • John 12:24
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    24Most assuredly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

  • Luke 14:25-27
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    25Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

    26"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

    27Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.

  • John 12:26
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    26If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

  • Prov 8:36
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    36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

  • Mark 13:13
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    13You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

  • Matt 10:22
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    22You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

  • Luke 14:33
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    33So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.

  • John 15:12-13
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    12"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

    13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

  • 1 John 5:12
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    12He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.

  • John 3:36
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    36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys{The same word can be translated "disobeys" or "disbelieves" in this context.} the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

  • John 8:51
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    51Most assuredly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."

  • Luke 12:21-23
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    21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

    22He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

    23Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

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    24He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • Luke 12:15
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    15He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

  • John 3:15-16
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    15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  • John 6:27
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    27Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

  • Luke 18:30
    71%

    30who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."

  • Matt 10:28
    71%

    28Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

  • John 15:23
    70%

    23He who hates me, hates my Father also.

  • John 15:18
    70%

    18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

  • Matt 6:24-25
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    24"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

    25Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

  • Luke 21:17
    70%

    17You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.

  • John 6:47
    70%

    47Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

  • 1 John 3:15
    70%

    15Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

  • 1 John 2:15
    70%

    15Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

  • John 10:17
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    17Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

  • Matt 19:29
    70%

    29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

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    16He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, But he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

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    25For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has."

  • John 6:57
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    57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.