Mark 8:36
for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
Young's Literal Translation
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
37Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
Cross References
Job 2:4And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life.
Psalms 49:17For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.
Malachi 3:14Ye have said, 'A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?
Matthew 16:26for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
Luke 12:19and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.
Romans 6:21what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those [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 →