Mark 8:36
What does it profit a person to gain the whole world and then forfeit his life?
Unlocked Literal 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
37What can a person give in exchange for his life?
Cross References
Job 2:4Satan answered Yahweh and said, “Skin for skin, indeed; a man will give all he has for his life.
Psalms 49:17For when he dies he will take nothing away; 1 his glory will not go down after him. 1
Malachi 3:14You have said, 'It is useless to serve God. What profit is it that we have kept his requirements or walked mournfully before Yahweh of hosts?
Matthew 16:26For what does it profit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? What can a person give in exchange for his life?
Luke 12:19I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods stored up for many years. Rest easy, eat, drink, be merry.”'
Romans 6:21At that time, what fruit then did you have of the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome 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 →