Luke 9:25
Good News Translation
Will you gain anything if you win the whole world but are yourself lost or defeated? Of course not!

New Revised Standard Version
What does it profit them if they gain the whole world, but lose or forfeit themselves?

Contemporary English Version
What will you gain, if you own the whole world but destroy yourself or waste your life?

New American Bible
What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world and lose himself and cast away himself?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world and lose himself and cast away himself?

what.

Luke 4:5-7 And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. . . .

Luke 12:19-21 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. . . .

Luke 16:24,25 And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame. . . .

Psalm 49:6-8 They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches, . . .

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

Mark 9:43-48 And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire: . . .

Acts 1:18,25 And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed out. . . .

2 Peter 2:15-17 Leaving the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity, . . .

Revelation 18:7,8 As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see. . . .

himself.

be.

Matthew 13:48,50 Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:27 But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

Context
Take Up Your Cross
24For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: for he that shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. 25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world and lose himself and cast away himself? 26For he that shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him the Son of man shall be ashamed, when he shall come in his majesty and that of his Father and of the holy angels.…
Cross References
Matthew 16:26
For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Hebrews 10:34
For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

Luke 9:24
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