Mark 8:36

New English Translation

For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

Cross References

Job 2:4

But Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!

Job 22:2

“Is it to God that a strong man is of benefit? Is it to him that even a wise man is profitable?

Psalm 49:17

For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?

Matthew 16:26

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

Mark 8:35

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

Mark 8:37

What can a person give in exchange for his life?

Luke 9:25

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

Romans 6:21

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.