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Selected Verse: Matthew 16:25 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Mt 16:25 |
King James |
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
For whosoever will save--is minded to save, or bent on saving.
his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it--(See on Mat 10:38-39). "A suffering and dying Messiah liketh you ill; but what if His servants shall meet the same fate? They may not; but who follows Me must be prepared for the worst." |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Whosoever will save his life - At the expense of his conscience: whosoever, in the very highest instance, that of life itself, will not renounce himself, shall be lost eternally. But can any man hope he should be able thus to renounce himself, if he cannot do it in the smallest instances? And whosoever will lose his life shall find it - What he loses on earth he shall find in heaven. Mat 10:39; Mar 8:35; Luk 9:24; Luk 17:33; Joh 12:25. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| For whosoever will save his life - That is, shall wish to save his life - at the expense of his conscience, and casting aside the cross, he shall lose it - the very evil he wishes to avoid shall overtake him; and he shall lose his soul into the bargain. See then how necessary it is to renounce one's self! But whatsoever a man loses in this world, for his steady attachment to Christ and his cause, he shall have amply made up to him in the eternal world. |
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
35 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.
39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.