24For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. …
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-27)In these verses, we have Christ discoursing with his disciples about the great things that pertained to the kingdom of God ; and one circumstance of this discourse is taken notice of here which we had not in the other evangelists-that Christ was alone praying , and his disciples with him , when he entered into this discourse, Luke 9:18. Observe, 1. Though Christ had much public work to do, yet he…
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