25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
25 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
25 In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you'll have it forever, real and eternal.
25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
25 Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity.
50 I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say."
50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me."
50 And I know exactly what his command produces: real and eternal life. That's all I have to say. What the Father told me, I tell you."
50 And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak."
50 And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say."
(Read John 12:44-50)
Our Lord publicly proclaimed, that every one who believed on him, as his true disciple, did not believe on him only, but on the Father who sent him. Beholding in Jesus the glory of the Father, we learn to obey, love, and trust in him. By daily looking to Him, who came a Light into the world, we are more and more freed from the darkness of ignorance, error, sin, and misery; we learn that the command of God our Saviour is everlasting life. But the same word will seal the condemnation of all who despise it, or neglect it.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 12:25
Commentary on John 12:20-26
(Read John 12:20-26)
In attendance upon holy ordinances, particularly the gospel passover, the great desire of our souls should be to see Jesus; to see him as ours, to keep up communion with him, and derive grace from him. The calling of the Gentiles magnified the Redeemer. A corn of wheat yields no increase unless it is cast into the ground. Thus Christ might have possessed his heavenly glory alone, without becoming man. Or, after he had taken man's nature, he might have entered heaven alone, by his own perfect righteousness, without suffering or death; but then no sinner of the human race could have been saved. The salvation of souls hitherto, and henceforward to the end of time, is owing to the dying of this Corn of wheat. Let us search whether Christ be in us the hope of glory; let us beg him to make us indifferent to the trifling concerns of this life, that we may serve the Lord Jesus with a willing mind, and follow his holy example.