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Mark 8:36

New Century Version

It is worthless to have the whole world if they lose their souls.

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“One skin for another!” Satan answered. “A man will give all he has to save his own life.

“Can anyone be of real use to God? Can even a wise person do him good?

They don’t take anything to the grave; their wealth won’t go down with them.

“You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. It did no good to obey his laws and to show the Lord All-Powerful that we were sorry for what we did.

It is worthless to have the whole world if they lose their souls. They could never pay enough to buy back their souls.

Those who want to save their lives will give up true life. But those who give up their lives for me and for the Good News will have true life.

They could never pay enough to buy back their souls.

It is worthless to have the whole world if they themselves are destroyed or lost.

You did evil things, and now you are ashamed of them. Those things only bring death.