Mark 8:36

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Job 2:4

Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! 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 will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

Psalm 73:18-20

Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, 'It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as 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 shall a man give in return for his soul?

Luke 9:25

For what does it profit a man 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 ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.'

Luke 16:19-23

"There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

Romans 6:21

But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Philippians 3:7-9

But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

Hebrews 11:24-26

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

James 1:9-11

Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,

Revelation 18:7-8

As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.'

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
Matthew 10:39
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Luke 17:33
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.

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