Matthew 16:26 - Easy To Read Version

²⁶ It is worth nothing for a person to have the whole world, if he loses his soul. A person could never pay enough to buy back his soul.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life [his blessed life in the kingdom of God]? Or what would a man give as an exchange for his [blessed] life [in the kingdom of God]?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Common English Bible

²⁶ Why would people gain the whole world but lose their lives? What will people give in exchange for their lives?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ For how does it benefit a man, if he gains the whole world, yet truly suffers damage to his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Matthew 16:26 Tagairtí Cros

Job 2:4

Satan answered, “Skin for skin! {\cf2\super [5]} A person will give everything he has to save his life.

Job 27:8

If a person does not care about God,\par then there is no hope for that person\par when he dies.\par That person has no hope\par when God takes his life away.\par

Matthew 16:25

The person that wants to save his life will lose it. And every person that gives his life for me will save it.

Matthew 16:27

The Son of Man {\cf2\super [235]} will come again with his Father’s glory and with his angels. At that time, the Son of Man will reward each person for the things he has done.

Matthew 5:29

If your right eye makes you sin, then take it out and throw it away. It is better to lose one part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

Luke 12:20

But God said to that man, ‘Foolish man! Tonight you will die. So what about the things you prepared for yourself? Who will get those things now?’

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘My child, remember when you lived? You had all the good things in life. But all the bad things happened to Lazarus. Now he is comforted here, and you are suffering.

Luke 9:25

It is worth nothing for a person to have the whole world, if he himself is destroyed or lost.