^24 (A)For if you want to save your own life, you will lose it, but if you lose your life for my sake, you will save it. ²⁵ Will you gain anything if you win the whole world but are yourself lost or defeated? Of course not! ²⁶ If you are ashamed of me and of my teaching, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of you when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.