Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
Darby Translation
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
37for what should a man give in exchange for his soul?
Cross References
Job 2:4And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life;
Psalms 49:17For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.
Malachi 3:14Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
Matthew 16:26For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Luke 12:19and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.
Romans 6:21What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* [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 →