Mark 8:36

Taking Up One's Cross To Follow Jesus

³⁵ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me and the gospel will save it. ³⁶ For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life? ³⁷ What can a man give in exchange for his life?

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Kingdom of God

What Will It Profit A Man

Mark

Job 2:4

“Skin for skin!” Satan answered the Lord. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.

Job 22:2

Can a man be of any use to God?
Can even a wise man be of use to Him?

Psalm 49:17

For when he dies, he will take nothing at all;
his wealth will not follow him down.

Psalm 73:18-20

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;
You make them fall into ruin.

Malachi 3:14

You have said: “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully 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 splendor.

Matthew 16:26

What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Luke 9:25

What is a man benefited if he gains the whole world, yet loses or forfeits himself?

Luke 12:19-20

Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

Luke 16:19-23

“There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day.

Romans 6:21

So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Philippians 3:7-9

But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because 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

The brother of humble circumstances should boast in his exaltation,

Revelation 18:7-8

As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
give her that much torment and grief,
for she says in her heart,
“I sit as a queen;
I am not a widow,
and I will never see grief.”