Mark 8:36

36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

Mark 8:36 in Other Translations

KJV
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
ESV
36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
NLT
36 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?
MSG
36 What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you?
CSB
36 For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life?

Mark 8:36 In-Context

34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
35 For whoever wants to save their lifewill lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.
36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
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