## Remember Lot's wife ##

This is a warning. It can be translated as "Do not do what Lot's wife did." She looked back toward Sodom and was punished along with the people of Sodom.

## Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it ##

"People who try save their lives will lose them" or "Whoever tries to save his old way of life will lose his life"

## but whoever loses his life will save it ##

"but people who lose their lives will save them" or "but whoever abandons his old way of life will save his life"