Mark 8:37

Geneva Bible

Or what exchange shall a man giue for his soule?

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
You could never pay enough to buy back your life.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
or els what shall a ma geve to redeme his soule agayne?

International Standard Version
Indeed, what can a person give in exchange for his life?

New American Standard Bible
"For what could a person give in exchange for his soul?

New Century Version
They could never pay enough to buy back their souls.

Update Bible Version
For what should a man give in exchange for his life?

Webster's Bible Translation
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Amplified Bible
"For what will a man give in exchange for his soul and eternal life [in God's kingdom]?

English Standard Version
For what can a man give in return for his soul?

World English Bible
For what should a man give in exchange for his life?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Or what shall a man give, in exchange for his soul?

Weymouth's New Testament
For what could a man give to buy back his life?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
or what chaunging schal a man yyue for his soule?

English Revised Version
For what should a man give in exchange for his life?

Berean Standard Bible
Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Contemporary English Version
What could you give to get back your soul?

American Standard Version
For what should a man give in exchange for his life?

Bible in Basic English
And what would a man give in exchange for his life?

Complete Jewish Bible
What could a person give in exchange for his life?

Darby Translation
for what should a man give in exchange for his soul?

Etheridge Translation
Or what shall a son of man give (as) the compensation for his soul ?

Murdock Translation
Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

King James Version (1611)
Or what shall a man giue in exchange for his soule?

New Living Translation
Is anything worth more than your soul?

New Life Bible
What can a man give to buy back his soul?

New Revised Standard
Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?

George Lamsa Translation
Or what could a man give in exchange for his life?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For what can a man, give, in exchange for his life?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul:

Revised Standard Version
For what can a man give in return for his life?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Or what shall a man geue, for a raunsome of his soule?

Good News Translation
There is nothing you can give to regain your life.

Christian Standard Bible®
What can anyone give in exchange for his life?

Hebrew Names Version
For what should a man give in exchange for his life?

King James Version
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Lexham English Bible
For what can a person give in exchange for his life?

Literal Translation
Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his soul?

Young's Literal Translation
Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Or, what can a man geue, to redeme his soule withall?

Mace New Testament (1729)
or what would not a man bestow to preserve himself?

New English Translation
What can a person give in exchange for his life?

New King James Version
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Simplified Cowboy Version
What kind of man would trade his soul for a two dollar lie?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Legacy Standard Bible
For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Contextual Overview

²⁷ And Iesus went out, and his disciples into the townes of Cesarea Philippi. And by the way hee asked his disciples, saying vnto them, Whome doe men say that I am? ²⁸ And they answered, Some say, Iohn Baptist: and some, Elias: and some, one of the Prophets. ²⁹ And he said vnto them, But whome say ye that I am? Then Peter answered, and saide vnto him, Thou art that Christ. ³⁰ And he sharpely charged them, that concerning him they should tell no man. ³¹ Then hee began to teache them that the Sonne of man must suffer many things, and should be reproued of the Elders, and of the hie Priestes, and of the Scribes, and be slaine, and within three dayes rise againe. ³² And he spake that thing boldly. Then Peter tooke him aside, and began to rebuke him. ³³ Then he turned backe, & looked on his disciples, and rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behinde me, Satan: for thou vnderstandest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men. ³⁴ And hee called the people vnto him with his disciples, and saide vnto them, Whosoeuer will followe me, let him forsake himselfe, and take vp his crosse, and follow me. ³⁵ For whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it: but whosoeuer shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospels, he shall saue it. ³⁶ For what shall it profite a man, though he should winne the whole world, if he lose his soule?

Bible Verse Review
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Psalms 49:7, Psalms 49:8, 1 Peter 1:18, 1 Peter 1:19

Reciprocal: Job 27:8 - General Psalms 62:10 - riches Proverbs 4:7 - with Ecclesiastes 1:3 - profit Jeremiah 41:8 - Slay Matthew 16:26 - or

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?] To deliver it out of its miserable state and condition; all the riches of the world, and the whole world itself, are not an equivalent to it, or a sufficient ransom for it; riches will not profit in the day of wrath, or deliver a soul from damnation, and ruin: wherefore, if he had the whole world, he could not redeem his soul with it; and he has nothing else to give for it, and therefore it is past all recovery: :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage illustrated in the notes at Matthew 16:13-28.

Mark 8:32

He spake that saying openly - With boldness or confidence, or without parables or figures, so that there could be no possibility of misunderstanding him.

Mark 8:38

Ashamed of me - Ashamed to own attachment to me on account of my lowly appearance and my poverty.

And of my words - My doctrines, my instructions.

This adulterous and sinful generation - This age given to wickedness, particularly to adultery.

In the glory of his Father - In the day of judgment. See the notes at Matthew 26:64. The meaning of this verse is, Whosoever shall refuse, through pride or wickedness, to acknowledge and serve Christ here, shall be excluded from his kingdom hereafter. He was lowly, meek, and despised; yet there was an inimitable beauty in his character even then. But he will come again in awful grandeur; not as the babe of Bethlehem, not as the man of Nazareth, but as the Son of God, in majesty and glory. They that would not acknowledge him here must be rejected by him there; they that would not serve him on earth will not enjoy his favor in heaven; they that would cast Him out and despise him must be cast out by him, and consigned to eternal, hopeless sorrow.