Mark 8:36 - Revised Standard Version

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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)

For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Common English Bible

Why would people gain the whole world but lose their lives?

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Mark 8:36 Tagairtí Cros

Job 2:4

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

Job 22:2

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

Psalm 49:17

For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?

Mark 8:35

For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

Mark 8:37

For what can a man give in return for his life?

Luke 9:25

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?

Romans 6:21

But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.