Matthew 16:26
Good News Translation
Will you gain anything if you win the whole world but lose your life? Of course not! There is nothing you can give to regain your life.

New Revised Standard Version
For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

Contemporary English Version
What will you gain, if you own the whole world but destroy yourself? What would you give to get back your soul?

New American Bible
What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

what is.

Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell.

Job 2:4 And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:

Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

Luke 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world and lose himself and cast away himself?

gain.

Matthew 4:8,9 Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, . . .

Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Luke 16:25 And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.

or.

Psalm 49:7,8 No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom, . . .

Mark 8:37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul:

Context
Take Up Your Cross
25For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it. 26For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul? 27For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.…
Cross References
Psalm 49:8
Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,

Matthew 4:8
Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,

Matthew 16:25
For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

Matthew 16:27
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.

Luke 9:25
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world and lose himself and cast away himself?

Matthew 16:25
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