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International Standard Version (©2008)
What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995)
What good does it do for people to win the whole world yet lose their lives?
King James Bible
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
American King James Version
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
American Standard Version
For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
Bible in Basic English
What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?
Douay-Rheims Bible
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Darby Bible Translation
For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
English Revised Version
For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
Webster’s Bible Translation
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul:
Weymouth New Testament
Why, what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
World English Bible
For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
Young’s Literal Translation
for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
| Parallel Commentaries |
{11} For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
(11) They are the most foolish of all men who purchase the pleasures of this life with the loss of everlasting bliss.
8:31-38 He began to teach them, etc. For the first announcement of the suffering of our Lord, the rebuke of Peter, and the lesson concerning the cross, and saving the soul, see notes on Mt 16:21-28. Compare Lu 9:22-27.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
8:34-38 Frequent notice is taken of the great flocking there was to Christ for help in various cases. All are concerned to know this, if they expect him to heal their souls. They must not indulge the ease of the body. As the happiness of heaven with Christ, is enough to make up for the loss of life itself for him, so the gain of all the world in sin, will not make up for the ruin of the soul by sin. And there is a day coming, when the cause of Christ will appear as glorious, as some now think it mean and contemptible. May we think of that season, and view every earthly object as we shall do at that great day.