Mark 8:36
for what will it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
Literal Standard 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 as an exchange for his life?
Cross References
Job 2:4And Satan answers YHWH and says, “A skin for a skin, and all that a man has he gives for his life.
Psalms 49:17For at his death he receives nothing, || His glory does not go down after him.
Malachi 3:14You have said, A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, || Because of YHWH of Hosts?
Matthew 16:26for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his life?
Luke 12:19and I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.
Romans 6:21What fruit, therefore, were you having then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [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 →