Matthew 10:39

Shepherd of Hermas Vision Second

Happy ye who endure the great tribulation that is coming on, and happy they who shall not deny their own life.[13]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV

draws the soul away gladly from the body, even if it wrench itself away in its removal. "For he that loveth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life shall find it,"[27]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV

And abstinence from vicious acts is found, somehow, [to result in] the diminution and extinction of vicious propensities, their energy being destroyed by inaction. And this is the import of "Sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and come, follow Me"[28]

Tertullian Scorpiace

-that is, he who will rather live by denying, than die by confessing, me; and "he who findeth his life shall lose it; but he who loseth it for my sake shall find it."[73]

Tertullian Of Patience

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Pseudo-Cyprian On the Glory of Martyrdom

For it is the very voice of Christ who speaks, and says, "Whosoever shall lose his life for my name's sake, shall receive in this world a hundred fold, and in the world to come shall possess eternal life."[20]

Pseudo-Cyprian On the Glory of Martyrdom

That is the very voice of Christ, who says: "He that loveth his life in this world, shall lose it in the world to come; but he that hateth his life in this world, shall find it in the world to come."[29]

Martyrdom of Habib the Deacon

Habib said: Nay, we do not hate our bodies: the Scripture distinctly teaches us, "Whosoever shall lose his life shall find it."[29]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

-a perishing which corresponds to the words, "He that loseth his life for My sake shall find it."[135]