Mark 8:35 · KJV
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
— Mark 8:35
For 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.
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mark 8 — Context
And 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.
34For 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.
35For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
36Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
37Whosoever 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.
Cross References
2 Timothy 2:11-13
{It is} a faithful saying: For if we be dead with {him}, we shall also live with {him}:
1 Corinthians 9:23
And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with {you}.
Luke 17:33
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
2 Timothy 1:8
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Matthew 16:25
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Matthew 10:39
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
John 12:25-26
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Luke 9:24
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
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