Matthew 16:26

New American Bible - revised edition

What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?

Cross References

Job 2:4

The satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.

Job 27:8

For what hope has the impious when he is cut off, when God requires his life?

Matthew 16:25

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct.

Matthew 5:29

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’

Luke 16:25

Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented.

Luke 9:25

What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?