Mark 8:36

Taking Up One's Cross To Follow Jesus

³⁵ For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. ³⁶ For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? ³⁷ For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

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Kingdom of God

What Will It Profit A Man

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Job 2:4

Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Job 22:2

“Can a vigorous man be of use to God,
Or a wise man be useful to himself?

Psalm 49:17

For when he dies he will carry nothing away;
His glory will not descend after him.

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 4:8-10

Again, the devil *took Him to a very high mountain and *showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 9:25

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

Luke 12:19-20

And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’

Luke 16:19-23

“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.

Romans 6:21

Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

Philippians 3:7-9

But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

Hebrews 11:24-26

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

James 1:9-11

But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;

Revelation 18:7-8

To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’