Matthew 16:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁶ For what will it benefit someone if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will anyone give in exchange for his life?

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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?

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?

Matthew 16:26 Cross References

Job 2:4

‘Skin for skin! ’ Satan answered the Lord. ‘A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.

Job 27:8

For what hope does the godless person   have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Matthew 16:25

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father,   and then he will reward each according to what he has done.

Matthew 5:29

If your right eye causes you to sin,   gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Luke 12:20

‘But God said to him, “You fool!   This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared #– #whose will they be? ”

Luke 16:25

‘ “Son,”   Abraham said, “remember that during your life you received your good things,   just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here,   while you are in agony.

Luke 9:25

For what does it benefit someone if he gains the whole world, and yet loses or forfeits himself?