33Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
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For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. …
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. …
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-37)We have here a discourse of Christ’s concerning the kingdom of God , that is, the kingdom of the Messiah, which was now shortly to be set up , and of which there was great expectation. I. Here is the demand of the Pharisees concerning it, which occasioned this discourse. They asked when the kingdom of God should come , forming a notion of it as a temporal kingdom , which should advance the Jewish…
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