Mark 8:36

For what profiteth it to a man, if he win all the world, and do impairing to his [own] soul?

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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 he that will make safe his life, shall lose it, [or Soothly whoso (ever) will make his soul, that is, his life, safe, shall lose it]; and he that loseth his life for me, and for the gospel, shall make it safe. (For he who will save his life, shall lose it; and he who loseth his life for me, and for the Gospel or the Good News, shall save it.)

37or what (ex)changing shall a man give for his soul?

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Cross References

Job 2:4To whom Satan answered, and said, A man shall give skin for skin, and all things that he hath for his life;

Psalms 49:17For when he shall die, he shall not take all things with him (or he shall not take anything with him); and his glory shall not go down with him.

Malachi 3:14And ye said, He is vain, that serveth God; and what winning for we kept his behests, and for we went sorrowful before the Lord of hosts? (Ye have said, It is empty and futile to serve God; and what profit, or what benefit, is there for us, though we have kept his commands, and we have gone sorrowfully before the Lord of hosts, because of our shortcomings?)

Matthew 16:26For what profiteth it to a man [or Soothly what profiteth to a man], if he win all the world, and suffer impairing of his soul? or what (ex)changing shall a man give for his soul?

Luke 12:19And I shall say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods kept into full many years; rest thou, eat, drink, and make feast.

Romans 6:21Therefore what fruit had ye then in those things, in which ye shame now? For the end of them is death. (And so what fruit had ye then in those things, of which ye now be ashamed? For their end 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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