Mark 8:36 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁶ For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ 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)

³⁶ For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Common English Bible

³⁶ Why would people gain the whole world but lose their lives?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ 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

³⁶ 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

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

Job 22:2

Can a man be profitable unto God? Surely he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

Psalm 49:17

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him.

Malachi 3:14

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

Matthew 16:26

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?

Mark 8:35

For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.

Mark 8:37

For what should a man give in exchange for his life?

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?

Romans 6:21

What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.