Mark 8:37

37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

Mark 8:37 in Other Translations

37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

37 For what can a man give in return for his soul?

37 Is anything worth more than your soul?

37 What could you ever trade your soul for?

37 For what should a man give in exchange for his life?

37 Or what should a person give in exchange for life?

37 What can a man give in exchange for his life?

37 Or what can anyone trade for his soul?

Mark 8:37 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 8:37

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
] To deliver it out of its miserable state and condition; all the riches of the world, and the whole world itself, are not an equivalent to it, or a sufficient ransom for it; riches will not profit in the day of wrath, or deliver a soul from damnation, and ruin: wherefore, if he had the whole world, he could not redeem his soul with it; and he has nothing else to give for it, and therefore it is past all recovery: (See Gill on Matthew 16:26).

Mark 8:37 In-Context

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.”