35For 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.
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It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: …
And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-38)We have read a great deal of the doctrine Christ preached, and the miracles he wrought, which were many, and strange, and well-attested, of various kinds, and wrought in several places, to the astonishment of the multitudes that were eye-witnesses of them. It is now time for us to pause a little, and to consider what these things mean; the wondrous works which Christ then forbade the publishing of…
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