Mark 8:36 - The Scriptures 2009

³⁶ For what shall it profit a man if he gains all the world, and loses his own life?”

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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 יהוה and said, “Skin for skin, and all that a man has he would give for his life!

Job 22:2

“Would a strong man be of use to Ěl? Even he who is wise be of use to Him?

Psalm 49:17

For when he dies he takes none of it; His wealth does not go down after him.

Malachi 3:14

“You have said, ‘It is worthless to serve Elohim. And what did we gain when we guarded His Charge, and when we walked as mourners before יהוה of hosts?

Matthew 16:26

“For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and loses his own life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Mark 8:35

“For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for the sake of Me and the Good News, he shall save it.

Mark 8:37

“Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and is himself destroyed or lost?”

Romans 6:21

What fruit, therefore, were you having then, over which you are now ashamed? For the end thereof is death.