Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world, but destroys himself or is lost?
A Conservative Version
For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself?
American Standard Version
For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?
Amplified
An Understandable Version
For what is a person benefited if he gains the whole world [i.e., of material things] and [yet] loses [his spiritual life] or gives himself up [to spiritual ruin]?
Anderson New Testament
For what will it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and destroy himself, or be lost?
Bible in Basic English
For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?
Common New Testament
For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?
Daniel Mace New Testament
what advantage is it for a man to have gain'd the whole world, if he himself runs into utter loss and ruin?
Darby Translation
For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?
Godbey New Testament
For what is a man profited, gaining the whole world, and losing or forfeiting himself?
Goodspeed New Testament
What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?
John Wesley New Testament
For what is a man profited, if he gain the whble world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Julia Smith Translation
For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost himself, or having been damaged?
King James 2000
For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or suffer loss?
Lexham Expanded Bible
For what is a person benefited [if he] gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?
Modern King James verseion
For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and loses himself, or is cast away?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For what shall it advantage a man, to win the whole world, if he lose himself: or run in damage of himself?
Moffatt New Testament
What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?
Montgomery New Testament
"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?
NET Bible
For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?
New Heart English Bible
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
Noyes New Testament
For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit himself?
Sawyer New Testament
For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and destroys himself, or loses his life?
The Emphasized Bible
For what doth a man profit, who hath gained the whole world, but hath lost, or been made to forfeit, himself?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For what advantage hath a man in gaining all the would, if he destroy himself, or be punished with the loss of life?
Twentieth Century New Testament
What good does it do a man if, when he has gained the whole world, he has lost or forfeited himself?
Webster
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Weymouth New Testament
Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.
World English Bible
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
Worrell New Testament
For what is a man profited, in having gained the whole world, but having lost or forfeited himself?
Worsley New Testament
For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be destroyed?
Youngs Literal Translation
for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?
Themes
Denial » Denying yourself for jesus Christ
Jesus Christ » History of » Foretells his own death and resurrection (near caesarea philippi)
Life » Who shall lose their life
Life » Lessons of » Precious, regarded by Christ as
Life » Who shall save their life
Losing and things lost » Who shall lose their life
Profit » What is not profitable
Profit and loss » Profit » Sin unprofitable, general references to
Salvation » Who shall save their life
Shame » Those that are ashamed of jesus Christ
Shame » Who jesus Christ will be ashamed of
Sin » Unpardonable, the » Unprofitable
Stoicism » Jesus requires self-denial and "crosses,"
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » Unprofitable
Topics
Interlinear
De
heautou
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 9:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Taking Up One's Cross To Follow Jesus
24 For whoever chooses to save his lower life will lose his higher life, but whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will save his higher life. 25 For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself? 26 For whoever is ashamed of me and my teaching, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when He comes back in all the splendor of His Father and of the holy angels.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 13:48
which, when it was full, the fishermen drew up on the shore, and sat down and picked out the good fish for their baskets and threw the bad away.
Matthew 13:50
and will throw them into the furnace of torturing punishment. There they will wail and grind their teeth.
Matthew 16:26
For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?
Mark 8:36
For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?
Mark 9:43-48
If your hand makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life maimed than keep both your hands and go down to the pit, to the fire that is never put out.
Luke 4:5-7
Then he took Him up and in a second of time he showed Him all the kingdoms of the world.
Luke 12:19-21
Then I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Go on taking your ease; continue to eat, drink, and enjoy yourself."'
Luke 16:24-25
So he called and said, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am ceaselessly tortured in this flame.'
Acts 1:18
(This man bought a piece of land with the money which he took for his treachery, and he fell there face downward and his body broke in two, and all his intestines poured out.
Acts 1:25
to take a share in this service as an apostle, from which Judas fell away to go to his own place."
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep on beating and bruising my body and making it my slave, so that I, after I have summoned others to the race, may not myself become unfit to run.
2 Peter 2:15-17
They have left the straight road and gone astray. They have followed the road that Balaam, the son of Beor, trod, who fell in love with the profits of wrongdoing
Revelation 18:7-8
To the same degree in which she has lived in splendor and luxury, give her torture and tears. Because she is always boasting in her heart, 'I sit enthroned as queen; I am not a widow, I shall never experience any sorrow' --