New Revised Standard Version
Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it.

Contemporary English Version
People who try to save their lives will lose them, and those who lose their lives will save them.

New American Bible
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.

Luke 9:24,25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: for he that shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. . . .

Matthew 10:39 He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.

Matthew 16:25 For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

Mark 8:35-37 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel shall save it. . . .

John 12:25 Itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his life in this world keepeth it unto life eternal.

Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I will give thee the crown of life.