Matthew 10:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Matthew 10:39 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Mark 8:35-36
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. …
Luke 17:33
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Matthew 16:25-26
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. …
Luke 9:24
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-42)

All these verses relate to the sufferings of Christ’s ministers in their work, which they are here taught to expect, and prepare for; they are directed also how to bear them, and how to go on with their work in the midst of them. This part of the sermon looks further than to their present mission; for we find not that they met with any great hardships or persecutions while Christ was with them, no…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 39)

39. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it--another of those pregnant sayings which our Lord so often reiterates (Mt 16:25; Lu 17:33; Joh 12:25). The pith of such paradoxical maxims depends on the double sense attached to the word “life”--a lower and a higher, the natural and the spiritual, the temporal and eternal. An entire sacrifice of the…