For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

ὃς γὰρ ἐὰν θέλῃ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ σῶσαι, ἀπολέσει αὐτήν· ὃς δ’ ἂν ἀπολέσῃ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ, εὑρήσει αὐτήν.

Jesus

Matthew 16:25

Buy the Bible (KJV) at Amazon Buy the Bible (KJV) at Amazon

Read this verse at Bible Hub

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Statement Type

Language

Time

Era

Occupation

From

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 16:25).

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Jesus about martyrdom: “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his…”

Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote about Salvation

There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church.

St. Cyprian

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Saint Cyprian. Letter to Jubaianus. c. 256, sect. 21.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Another quote from Classical antiquity

What I say is that "just" or "right" means nothing but what is to the interest of the stronger party.

Thrasymachus

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

Quoted in Republic, by Plato

Buy the Republic at Amazon Buy the Republic at Amazon

Read the Republic at MIT's classics department website

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Thrasymachus. Quoted in Πολιτεία [Republic], written by Plato. c. 375 BCE.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Thrasymachus. Quoted in Republic, written by Plato, translated by Desmond Lee. Penguin Classics, 2007.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Another quote originally in Greek

How many things I can do without!

Socrates

Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius

Buy The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers at Amazon Buy The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers at Amazon

Read The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Author

Source

Genre

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 2, ch. 5.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Socrates. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 2, ch. 5.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Another quote of the following type Paradox

Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.

Georg Simmel

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

The Metropolis and Mental Life

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Simmel, Georg. "Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben [The Metropolis and Mental Life]." The First German Municipal Exposition. 1903, Dresden, Germany.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Simmel, Georg. "The Metropolis and Mental Life." Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.