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Luke 17:33
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.
Luke 17:33 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Luke 17:33 in other translations
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
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In context
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.
31 In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.
34 I say to you: In that night there shall be two men in one bed. The one shall be taken and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together. The one shall be taken and the other shall be left. Two men shall be in the field. The one shall be taken and the other shall be left.
36 They answering, say to him: Where, Lord?
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