Luke 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? A Sunday-school teacher, when speaking about the passage, "Buy the truth, and sell it not," said that the man who buys the truth, at whatever cost, makes a good bargain. He then asked his boys if any of them remembered an instance in the Scriptures of a bad bargain. These answers were given — 1. "Esau made a bad bargain when he sold his birthright for a mess of pottage." 2. "Judas made a bad bargain when he sold Jesus for thirty pieces of silver." 3. "He makes a bad bargain, who, to gain the whole world, loses his own soul." Parallel Verses KJV: For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?WEB: For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self? |
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