Mark 8:36

For what will it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

Job 2:4

And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Job 22:2

Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

Psalm 49:17

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

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.

Malachi 3:14

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before LORD of hosts?

Matthew 4:8-10

Again, the devil takes him onto an exceedingly high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them.

Matthew 16:26

For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 9:25

For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself?

Luke 12:19-20

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

Luke 16:19-23

Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously daily.

Romans 6:21

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Philippians 3:7-9

But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ.

Hebrews 11:24-26

By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

James 1:9-11

Now let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,

Revelation 18:7-8

In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.

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Summary

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

General references

Bible References

General references

Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?
Matthew 10:39
He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life because of me will find it.
Luke 17:33
Whoever will seek to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose it will keep it alive.