Matthew 16:26 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ For how does it benefit a man, if he gains the whole world, yet truly suffers damage to his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life [his blessed life in the kingdom of God]? Or what would a man give as an exchange for his [blessed] life [in the kingdom of God]?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Common English Bible

²⁶ Why would people gain the whole world but lose their lives? What will people give in exchange for their lives?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

English Standard Version 2016

²⁶ For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Matthew 16:26 Cross References

Job 2:4

Answering him, Satan said, "Skin for skin; and everything that a man has, he will give for his life.

Job 27:8

For what hope is there for the hypocrite, if he greedily plunders and God does not free his soul?

Matthew 16:25

For whoever would save his life, will lose it. But whoever will have lost his life for my sake, shall find it.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of man will arrive in the glory of his Father, with his Angels. And then he will repay each one according to his works.

Matthew 5:29

And if your right eye causes you to sin, root it out and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body be cast into Hell.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him: 'Foolish one, this very night they require your soul of you. To whom, then, will those things belong, which you have prepared?'

Luke 16:25

And Abraham said to him: 'Son, recall that you received good things in your life, and in comparison, Lazarus received bad things. But now he is consoled, and truly you are tormented.

Luke 9:25

For how does it benefit a man, if he were to gain the whole world, yet lose himself, or cause himself harm?