Mark 8:36
For how is the ben Adam (human being) benefited if he gain the kol haOlam, and forfeit his neshamah?
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 shall a ben Adam give in exchange [for] his neshamah?
Cross References
Job 2:4And HaSatan answered Hashem, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that an ish hath will he give for his nefesh.
Psalms 49:17Be not thou afraid when one is made an ish oishir, 1 when the kavod of his bais is increased; 1
Malachi 3:14Ye have said: Avod Elohim is vain; 1 and what profit is it that we have been shomer over His mishmeret, 1 and that we have walked as mourners 1 before Hashem Tzva'os? 1
Matthew 16:26For what will a man be benefited if he acquires the whole world and forfeits his neshamah, or what will a man give in exchange for his neshamah?
Luke 12:19And I will say to my neshamah, Neshamah, you have an ample store of goods for many years to come. Take your ease, LEEKHOL, VLISHTOT, VLISHMOACH + 12:19 Koh 8:15 (to eat, and to drink, and to be merry).
Romans 6:21What p'ri for Hashem did you produce then? Things for which you now have bushah (shame), for the end result of those things is mavet (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 →