Luke 9:24

Luke 9:24 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
• New International Version (NIV)For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

Context of Luke 9:24

22saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and ruling kohanim and Torah scholars, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.” 23Then Yeshua was saying to everyone, “If anyone wants to follow Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross every day, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. 25“For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself? 26For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and the glory of the Father and the holy angels.

Luke 9:24 word by word

ὃς γὰρ ἂν θέλῃ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ σῶσαι, ἀπολέσει αὐτήν· ὃς δ᾽ ἂν ἀπολέσῃ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ, οὗτος σώσει αὐτήν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• whosoeverὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• ·ἄνan · ifG302
• willθέλωthelō ethelō · to will/desireG2309
• saveσῴζωsōzō · to saveG4982
• hisαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• lifeὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• lifeψυχήpsuchē · soul: lifeG5590
• shall loseἀπολλύωapollumi · to destroyG622
• butδέde · thenG1161
• forἕνεκαheneka heneken heineken · because ofG1752
• myἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• the sameοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778

Cross-references for Luke 9:24

• Luke 17:33Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
• Acts 20:23except that the Ruach ha-Kodesh bears witness to me from city to city, saying that bondage and afflictions await me.
• Hebrews 11:35Women received their dead raised back to life; and others were tortured, after not accepting release, so they might obtain a better resurrection.
• Revelation 2:10Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, so that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• Revelation 12:11They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even in the face of death.

Commentaries on Luke 9:24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24Will save his life - See on Matthew 16:24; (note), etc.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18-26Verses 18-26 See the Matthew 16:13-27 notes; Mark 8:27-38 notes. Luke 9:20 The Christ of God - The “Anointed” of God. The “Messiah” appointed by God, and who had been long promised by him. See the notes at Matthew 1:1.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-27Verses 18-27 It is an unspeakable comfort that our Lord Jesus is God's Anointed; this signifies that he was both appointed to be the Messiah, and qualified for it. Jesus discourses concerning his own sufferings and death. And so far must his disciples be from thinking how to prevent his sufferings, that they must prepare for their own. We often meet with crosses in the way of duty; and though we must not pull them upon our own heads, yet, when they are…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24whoever wants to save his life: Trying to keep control of your own life instead of trusting God suggests that putting yourself in God’s place denies that Jesus is king. The result is that a person will lose true life, especially at the final judgment (9:26; John 12:25).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. will save--"Is minded to save," bent on saving. The pith of this maxim depends--as often in such weighty sayings (for example, "Let the dead bury the dead," Mt 8:22)--on the double sense attached to the word "life," a lower and a higher, the natural and the spiritual, temporal and eternal. An entire sacrifice of the lower, or a willingness to make it, is indispensable to the preservation of the higher life; and he who cannot bring himself to surrender…Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 9:24

• Jesus Continued
• Jesus, the Christ
• Life
• Martyrdom
• Self-Denial
• Stoicism
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Advantage
• Belong
• Bless
• Close
• Cry
• Cure
• Decease
• Fashion
• Fit
• Generation

Commentaries on Luke 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings