Bible verse
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
Mark 8:36 · BSB
The verses around it, from Mark 8.
32 He spoke this message quite frankly, and Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.
33 But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
34 Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
36 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
37 Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
38 If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
KJV
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
ASV
For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
ERV
For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
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