Mark 8:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life [in the eternal kingdom of God]?

American Standard Version (1901)

For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Common English Bible

Why would people gain the whole world but lose their lives?

Catholic Public Domain Version

For how does it benefit a man, if he gains the whole world, and yet causes harm to his soul?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Mark 8:36 Cross References

Job 2:4

Then the accuser answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that the man has he will give for his life.

Job 22:2

“Can a mortal be of use to God? Can even the wisest be of service to him?

Psalm 49:17

For when they die they will carry nothing away; their wealth will not go down after them.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

Mark 8:35

For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.

Mark 8:37

Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?

Luke 9:25

For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?

Romans 6:21

So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.