Mark 8:36 - New International Version (Anglicised)

³⁶ What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ 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)

³⁶ For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Common English Bible

³⁶ Why would people gain the whole world but lose their lives?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ For how does it benefit a man, if he gains the whole world, and yet causes harm to his soul?

Mark 8:36 Tagairtí Cros

Job 2:4

‘Skin for skin!’ Satan replied. ‘A man will give all he has for his own life.

Job 22:2

‘Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him?

Psalm 49:17

for they will take nothing with them when they die, their splendour will not descend with them.

Malachi 3:14

‘You have said, “It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty?

Matthew 16:26

What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

Mark 8:35

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.

Mark 8:37

Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

Luke 9:25

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?

Romans 6:21

What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!