Mark 8:36
What good is it to a person to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?
Open English Bible (US)
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 could a person give that is of equal value with their life?
Cross References
Psalms 49:17Not a shred of it all can they take when they die, wealth cannot follow them down.
Malachi 3:14You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God, and what do we gain from the Lord of hosts by keeping his commands, and walking mournfully in funeral garb before him?
Matthew 16:26What good will it do a person to gain the whole world, if he forfeits his life? Or what will a person give that is of equal value with his life?
Luke 12:19and I will say to myself, Now you have plenty of good things put by for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.’
Romans 6:21But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such 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 →