Mark 8:36
For how does it benefit a man, if he gains the whole world, and yet causes harm to his soul?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
In Context
37Or, what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Cross References
Job 2:4Answering him, Satan said, “Skin for skin; and everything that a man has, he will give for his life.
Psalms 49:17Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
Malachi 3:14And you have said, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “He labors in vain who serves God,” and, “What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts?”
Matthew 16:26For 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?
Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods, stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, and be cheerful.’
Romans 6:21But what fruit did you hold at that time, in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Matthew Henry on Mark 8:28-38
Peter's Enlightened Testimony; Peter Rebuked. 27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Cæsarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? 28 And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets. 29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. 30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. 31 And he began to teach them, that the… Read the whole commentary →