Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 shall a man give in exchange for his soul:
Cross References
Job 2:4And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:
Psalms 49:17Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
Malachi 3:14And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?
Matthew 16:26For 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?
Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer.
Romans 6:21What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you 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 →