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Source language
Original Greek   
ὃς ἐὰν ζητήσῃ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ⸀περιποιήσασθαι ἀπολέσει αὐτήν, ⸂ὃς δʼ ἂν⸃ ⸀ἀπολέσῃ ζῳογονήσει αὐτήν.
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
os ean zetese ten psukhen autou rperipoiesasthai apolesei auten, [?]os d' an[?] rapolese zoogonesei auten.

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
quicumque quaesierit animam suam salvare perdet illam et qui perdiderit illam vivificabit eam

King James Variants
American King James Version   
Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Authorized (King James) Version   
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
New King James Version   
Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
21st Century King James Version   
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life'shall preserve it.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
“Whoever chooses to save his life shall lose it, and whoever will lose his life shall find it.”
Darby Bible Translation   
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, shall preserve it.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.
God's Word   
Those who try to save their lives will lose them, and those who lose their lives will save them.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
Whoever tries to make his life secure will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
International Standard Version   
Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
NET Bible   
Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
New American Standard Bible   
"Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
New International Version   
Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.
New Living Translation   
If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.
Webster's Bible Translation   
Whoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life, shall preserve it.
Weymouth New Testament   
Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
The World English Bible   
Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Whoever wants to keep his own life safe will lose it. But whoever gives his life to serve me will have true life.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.
New Life Version   
“He who wants to keep his life will have it taken away from him. He who loses his life will have it given back to him.
Revised Geneva Translation   
“Whoever will seek to save his soul, shall lose it. And whoever shall lose it, shall preserve it.
The Voice Bible   
If you try to hold on to your life, it will slip through your fingers; if you let go of your life, you’ll keep it.
Living Bible   
Whoever clings to his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life shall save it.
New Catholic Bible   
Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will save it.
Legacy Standard Bible   
Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
Whosoever shall seek to save his soul shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall cause it to live.
Christian Standard Bible   
Whoever tries to make his life secure will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve and quicken it.
New Century Version   
Those who try to keep their lives will lose them. But those who give up their lives will save them.
The Message   
“When the Day arrives and you’re out working in the yard, don’t run into the house to get anything. And if you’re out in the field, don’t go back and get your coat. Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! If you grasp and cling to life on your terms, you’ll lose it, but if you let that life go, you’ll get life on God’s terms.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
Whoever tries to retain · his life for himself will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it.
New Matthew Bible   
Whosoever would go about to save his life, shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life, shall save it.
Good News Translation®   
Those who try to save their own life will lose it; those who lose their life will save it.
Wycliffe Bible   
Whoever seeketh to make his life safe, shall lose it; and whoever loseth it, shall quicken it. [Whoever shall seek to make his life safe, shall lose it; and whoever shall lose it, shall quicken it.]
New Testament for Everyone   
If you try to save your life you’ll lose it, but anyone who loses it 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.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
Then he said to the disciples, “The time will come when you will long to see again a single day of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. People will say to you, ‘Look, there he is’, or ‘Look, here he is.’ Stay where you are and don’t go off looking for him! For the day of the Son of Man will be like lightning flashing from one end of the sky to the other. But before that happens, he must go through much suffering and be utterly rejected by this generation. In the time of the coming of the Son of Man, life will be as it was in the days of Noah. People ate and drank, married and were given in marriage, right up to the day when Noah entered the ark—and then came the flood and destroyed them all. It will be just the same as it was in the days of Lot. People ate and drank, bought and sold, planted and built, but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. That is how it will be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. When that day comes, the man who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside it, must not come down to get them. And the man out in the fields must not turn back for anything. Remember what happened to Lot’s wife. Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, and the man who is prepared to lose his life will preserve it. I tell you, that night there will be two men in one bed, one man will be taken and the other will be left. Two women will be turning the grinding-mill together; one will be taken and the other left.”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Whoever tries to preserve their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life will preserve it.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
Whoever seeks to save his life will [eventually] lose it [through death], and whoever loses his life [in this world] will keep it [from the consequences of sin and separation from God].
English Standard Version Anglicised   
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it.
New American Standard Bible   
Whoever strives to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will keep it.
The Expanded Bible   
Those who try to ·keep [preserve; keep secure] their lives will lose them. But those who ·give up [lose; let go of] their lives will save them.
Tree of Life Version   
Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Revised Standard Version   
Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
New International Reader's Version   
Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it. Whoever loses their life will keep it.
BRG Bible   
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Complete Jewish Bible   
Whoever aims at preserving his own life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will stay alive.
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
Anyone who wants to keep his life will lose it. And anyone who gives up his life will keep it.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
Whoever seeks to preserve his nefesh will lose it; but whoever loses it, will preserve it.
Names of God Bible   
Those who try to save their lives will lose them, and those who lose their lives will save them.
Modern English Version   
Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Easy-to-Read Version   
“Whoever tries to keep the life they have will lose it. But whoever gives up their life will save it.
International Children’s Bible   
Whoever tries to keep his life will give up true life. But whoever gives up his life will have true life.
Lexham English Bible   
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will keep it.
New International Version - UK   
Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.
Disciples Literal New Testament   
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it. But whoever loses it will keep it alive.