Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
Or what should a person give in exchange for his life?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Indeed, what can a person give in exchange for his life?
A Conservative Version
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
American Standard Version
For what should a man give in exchange for his life?
Amplified
Anderson New Testament
Or, what will a man give as a ransom for his life?
Bible in Basic English
And what would a man give in exchange for his life?
Common New Testament
Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Daniel Mace New Testament
or what would not a man bestow to preserve himself?
Darby Translation
for what should a man give in exchange for his soul?
Godbey New Testament
For what would a man give in exchange for his soul?
Goodspeed New Testament
For what can a man give to buy back his life?
John Wesley New Testament
Or what shall a man give, in exchange for his soul?
Julia Smith Translation
Or what shall a man give for the exchange of his soul?
King James 2000
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
Lexham Expanded Bible
For what can a person give in exchange for his life?
Modern King James verseion
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Or else, what shall a man give, to redeem his soul again?
Moffatt New Testament
What could a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?
Montgomery New Testament
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
NET Bible
What can a person give in exchange for his life?
New Heart English Bible
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Noyes New Testament
For what can a man give as an exchange for his life?
Sawyer New Testament
for what is the exchange for his life?
The Emphasized Bible
For what can a man, give, in exchange for his life?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Twentieth Century New Testament
For what could a man give that is of equal value with his life?
Webster
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Weymouth New Testament
For what could a man give to buy back his life?
Williams New Testament
For what price can a man give to buy back life?
World English Bible
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Worrell New Testament
Or what could a man give as an exchange for his soul?
Worsley New Testament
or what shall a man give as a ransom for his soul?
Youngs Literal Translation
Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
Themes
Jesus Christ » History of » Foretells his own death and resurrection (near caesarea philippi)
Profit » What is not profitable
Interlinear
References
American
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Mark 8:37
Verse Info
Context Readings
Taking Up One's Cross To Follow Jesus
36 For what would it benefit a person to gain the whole world [i.e., of material things] and give up his life [i.e., of spiritual blessings]? 37 Or what should a person give in exchange for his life? 38 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this [spiritually] unfaithful and sinful generation, the Son of man will also be ashamed of him when He returns in the splendor of His Father, accompanied by the holy angels."
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Peter 1:18-19
You [should] know that you were bought back [from Satan], from your useless way of life, inherited from your forefathers, not with such perishable things as silver and gold,