For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it; for he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall save it.

for whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he shall save it.

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it.

For whoever has a desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, but whoever gives up his life because of me, will keep it.

For whoever will have saved his life, will lose it. Yet whoever will have lost his life for my sake, will save it.

For whoever wishes to save their life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake, loses his life – that person will save it.

Will save his life - See on Matthew 16:24 (note), etc.

For whosoever will save his life,.... See Gill on Matthew 16:25.

PETER'S CONFESSION OF CHRIST--OUR LORD'S FIRST EXPLICIT ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS APPROACHING DEATH, AND WARNINGS ARISING OUT OF IT. (Luke 9:18-27)
will save--"Is minded to save," bent on saving. The pith of this maxim depends--as often in such weighty sayings (for example, "Let the dead bury the dead," Matthew 8:22) --on the double sense attached to the word "life," a lower and a higher, the natural and the spiritual, temporal and eternal. An entire sacrifice of the lower, or a willingness to make it, is indispensable to the preservation of the higher life; and he who cannot bring himself to surrender the one for the sake of the other shall eventually lose both.

Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; John 12:25.