Mark 8:36
34 Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
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.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
37 Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
38 If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
- KJV
- For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
- WEB
- For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
- ASV
- For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
- DARBY
- For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
- BLB
- For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and to lose his soul?
- ÅB
- For hva gagner det et menneske om han vinner den hele verden og tar skade på sin sjel?
- OTB
- Hva gagner det et menneske å vinne hele verden, men miste sin sjel?
- B1930
- For hvad gagner det et menneske om han vinner den hele verden og tar skade på sin sjel?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 16:26
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Read in contextPsalms 49:17
For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
Read in contextLuke 9:25
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
Read in contextJames 1:9–11
The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.
Read in contextPhilippians 3:7–9
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
Read in contextLuke 12:19–20
Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
Read in contextHebrews 11:24–26
By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
Read in contextRomans 6:21
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
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