11 Bible Verses about Gain The World But Lose His Soul

Matthew 16:26 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Mark 8:34-38 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Mark 8:36 ESV / 31 helpful votes

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

Luke 9:25 ESV / 14 helpful votes

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?

Job 2:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

James 2:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

Philippians 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

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