John 12:24-25

Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of John 12 · Words of Christ are set in red.

2 songs meet this passage

  • “Where You lost Your life so I could find it here”

    So Will I (100 Billion X) · Hillsong UNITED & Benjamin William Hastings

    resonates with John 12:24-25

    The surrender of the grain of wheat dying to bring life pictures the self-giving death the song celebrates.

  • “Ya son milagros, rompiendo crisálidas”

    Dos Oruguitas · Sebastián Yatra

    resonates with John 12:24

    Jesus describes a seed that must fall and die to bear fruit, a pattern similar to the breaking of the chrysalis before new life emerges.

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