Mark 8:36

For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Job 2:4

Then Satan answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that {that} man has he will give for his life.

Job 22:2

"Can a man be of use to God? Yes, can [the] wise be of use to him?

Psalm 49:17

because when he dies he will not take [away] any [of it]. His wealth will not follow down after him.

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh 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 a person be benefited if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life?

Luke 9:25

For what is a person benefited [if he] gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

Luke 12:19-20

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many possessions stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, celebrate!" '

Luke 16:19-23

"Now a certain man was rich, and dressed [in] purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day.

Romans 6:21

Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [things] [is] death.

Philippians 3:7-9

But whatever [things] were gain to me, these [things] I have considered loss because 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

Now let the brother of humble circumstances boast in his high position,

Revelation 18:7-8

As much as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, give to her so much torment and mourning, because in her heart she said, 'I sit as a queen, and am not a widow, and I will never see mourning!'

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 he cuts [them] off, when God takes away his life?
Matthew 10:39
The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.
Luke 17:33
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses [it] will keep it.