Mark 8:36

For what will it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul?

Text-Critical English NT

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

35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the sake of the gospel will save it.

37Or what can a person give in exchange for his soul?

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Cross References

Matthew 16:26For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul? Or what can a person give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul, “Soul, yoʋ have many goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, and be merry.”’

Romans 6:21So what fruit did you have at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end result of those 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 →

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