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Mark 8:36 KJV
Mark · chapter 8 · verse 36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?Mark 8:36 · King James Version
Mark 8:36 in context
34And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
36For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
37Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
38Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Commentary
Cross references
- Matthew 16:26
- Luke 9:25
- Psalms 49:17
- James 1:9-11
- Philippians 3:7-9
- Luke 12:19-20
- Hebrews 11:24-26
- Romans 6:21
Key words (Strong's)
- profitōpheleōto assist, to be useful or advantageous, to profitG5623 →
- wholeholosall, whole, completelyG3650 →
- worldkosmosan apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government, ornament…G2889 →
- gainkerdainōto gain, acquire, to get gain, metaph., of gain arising from shunning or escaping from…G2770 →
- losezēmioōto affect with damage, do damage to, to sustain damage, to receive injury, suffer lossG2210 →
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We have read a great deal of the doctrine Christ preached, and the miracles he wrought, which were many, and strange, and well-attested, of various kinds, and wrought in several places, to the astonishment of the multitudes that were eye-witnesses of them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 27-38