Mark 8:36

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

Job 2:4

Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Job 22:2

“Can a vigorous man be of use to God,
Or a wise man be useful to himself?

Psalm 49:17

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

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked 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 will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited 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 many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’

Luke 16:19-23

“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.

Romans 6:21

Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

Philippians 3:7-9

But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

Hebrews 11:24-26

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

James 1:9-11

But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;

To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Mark 8:36

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

General references

Job 27:8

Matthew 10:39

Luke 17:33

Bible References

General references

“For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requires his life?

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.

Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.