Mark 8:36 - Compare All Versions

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Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

It is worthless to have the whole world if they lose their souls.

For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

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

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world [with all its pleasures], and forfeit his soul?

And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?

For what use is it to gain all the wealth and power of this world, with everything it could offer you, at the cost of your own life?

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?