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

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?

King James Version

For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

Holman Bible

What is a man benefited if he gains the whole world, yet loses or forfeits himself?

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

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world [wealth, fame, success], and loses or forfeits himself?

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 344

is
ὠφελέω 
Opheleo 
Usage: 8

a man
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
man, not tr,
Usage: 316

ὠφελέω 
Opheleo 
Usage: 8

if he gain
κερδαίνω 
Kerdaino 
gain, win, get gain, vr gain
Usage: 9

the whole
ὅλος 
Holos 
Usage: 83

κόσμος 
Kosmos 
Usage: 109

and
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

ἀπόλλυμι 
Apollumi 
Usage: 37

ἑαυτοῦ 
heautou 
Usage: 249

or
ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

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.

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' --

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