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Matius 10:39

Barangsiapa mempertahankan nyawanya, ia akan kehilangan nyawanya, dan barangsiapa kehilangan nyawanya karena Aku, ia akan memperolehnya.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Discipleship;   Life;   Martyrdom;   Minister, Christian;   Paradox;   Self-Denial;   Stoicism;   Worldliness;   Thompson Chain Reference - For Christ's Sake;   Jesus' Sake, for;   Paradoxes;   Suffering for Christ's Sake;   Suffering for Righteousness' S;   The Topic Concordance - Finding;   Following;   Life;   Losing and Things Lost;   Receiving;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Apostles, the;   Life, Natural;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Apostle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Consecration;   Ethics;   Jesus christ;   Love;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Humility;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Disciples;   Life;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Atonement;   Ethics;   Mss;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ambition;   Announcements of Death;   Brotherhood (2);   Common Life;   Consciousness;   Courage;   Death (2);   Disciple (2);   Discourse;   Example;   Gospel (2);   Happiness;   Ideas (Leading);   Individualism;   Life ;   Mediator;   Mental Characteristics;   Neighbour (2);   Paradox;   Pleasure;   Promise (2);   Property (2);   Propitiation (2);   Proverbs ;   Redemption (2);   Regeneration;   Regeneration (2);   Religious Experience;   Salvation;   Self-Control;   Soul;   Spirit ;   Trinity (2);   Turning;   Wealth (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 23 Life Living;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Apostle;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Lose;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Justification;   Life;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Self-Surrender;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 11;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Barangsiapa mempertahankan nyawanya, ia akan kehilangan nyawanya, dan barangsiapa kehilangan nyawanya karena Aku, ia akan memperolehnya.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Siapa yang memeliharakan nyawanya, ia akan kehilangan nyawa; dan siapa yang kehilangan nyawanya oleh sebab Aku, ialah akan mendapat nyawa.

Contextual Overview

16 Beholde, I sende you foorth, as sheepe in the middest of woolfes. Be ye therfore wyse as serpentes, and harmelesse as doues. 17 But beware of men. For they shall delyuer you vp to the councels, and shal scourge you in their synagogues. 18 And ye shalbe brought to the head rulers, and kynges, for my sake, in witnesse to them, and to the Gentiles. 19 But whe they delyuer you vp, take ye no thought, how or what ye shal speake. For it shalbe geuen you, euen in that same houre, what ye shall speake. 20 For it is not ye that speake, but ye spirite of your father, which speaketh in you. 21 The brother shall delyuer vp the brother to death, and the father the sonne, & the chyldren shall ryse agaynst their fathers, and mothers, and shall put them to death. 22 And ye shalbe hated of all men, for my names sake: but he that endureth to the ende, shalbe saued. 23 But, when they persecute you in this citie, flee ye into another. For verily I say vnto you, ye shall not ende all the cities of Israel, tyll the sonne of man be come. 24 The disciple is not aboue the maister, nor the seruaunt aboue his lorde. 25 It is enough for the disciple, that he be as his maister is: and that the seruaunt, be as his lorde is. If they haue called the lorde of the house Beelzebub: howe much more shall they call them of his householde so?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 16:25, Matthew 16:26, Mark 8:35, Mark 8:36, Luke 17:33, John 12:25, Philippians 1:20, Philippians 1:21, 2 Timothy 4:6-8, Revelation 2:10

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 26:21 - he was Daniel 3:18 - be it Matthew 5:11 - for Matthew 10:22 - for Luke 6:22 - for Luke 9:23 - If John 15:21 - all 1 Peter 3:14 - if

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that findeth his life shall lose it,.... That man that seeks to preserve his life, and the temporal enjoyments of it, by a sinful compliance with his friends and the world, and by a denial of Christ, or non-confession of him; if he is not, by the providence of God, deprived of the good things of life, and dies a shameful death, both which are sometimes the case of such persons; yet he is sure to lose the happy and eternal life of his soul and body, in the world to come: so that the present finding of life, or the possession of it, on such sinful terms, will in the issue prove an infinite and irreparable loss unto him. On the other hand, Christ observes,

he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it. That man that is willing to forego the present advantages of life, to suffer reproach and persecution, and lay down his life cheerfully for the sake of Christ and his Gospel, for the profession of his name, rather than drop, deny, conceal, or neglect any truth and ordinance of his, shall find his soul possessed of eternal life, as soon as separated from his body; and shall find his corporal life again, in the resurrection morn, to great advantage; and shall live with Christ in soul and body, in the utmost happiness, to all eternity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that findeth his life ... - The word “life” in this passage is used evidently in two senses. The meaning may be expressed thus: He that is anxious to save his “temporal” life, or his comfort and security here, shall lose “eternal” life, or shall fail of heaven. He that is willing to risk or lose his comfort and “life” here for my sake, shall find “life” everlasting, or shall be saved. The manner of speaking is similar to that where he said, “Let the dead bury their dead.” See notes at Matthew 8:22.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 39. He that findeth his life, c.] i.e. He who, for the sake of his temporal interest, abandons his spiritual concerns, shall lose his soul and he who, in order to avoid martyrdom, abjures the pure religion of Christ, shall lose his soul, and perhaps his life too. He that findeth his life shall lose it, was literally fulfilled in Archbishop Cranmer. He confessed Christ against the devil, and his eldest son, the pope. He was ordered to be burnt; to save his life he recanted, and was, notwithstanding, burnt. Whatever a man sacrifices to God is never lost, for he finds it again in God.

There is a fine piece on this subject in Juvenal, Sat. viii. l. 80, which deserves to be recorded here.

----------- ambiguae si quando citabere testis

Incertaeque rei, Phalaris liect imperet ut sis

Falsus, et admoto dictet perjuria tauro,

Summum crede nefas ANIMAM praeferre PUDORI

Et propter VITAM VIVENDI perdere causas.

---------- If ever call'd

To give thy witness in a doubtful case,

Though Phalaris himself should bid thee lie,

On pain of torture in his flaming bull,

Disdain to barter innocence for life;

To which life owes its lustre and its worth.

Wakefield.


 
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