Matthew 16:26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

Cross References

Job 2:4

Then the accuser answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that the man has he will give for his life.

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off, when God takes away their lives?

Matthew 16:25

For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:27

“For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done.

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 for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.

Luke 9:25

For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?