24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save 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.
24 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
24 Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.
24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
24 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 9:24
Commentary on Luke 9:18-27
(Read Luke 9:18-27)
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 laid for us, we must take them up, and carry them after Christ. It is well or ill with us, according as it is well or ill with our souls. The body cannot be happy, if the soul be miserable in the other world; but the soul may be happy, though the body is greatly afflicted and oppressed in this world. We must never be ashamed of Christ and his gospel.