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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"