Mark 8:37

Simplified Cowboy Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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?

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?

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Or what exchange shall a man giue for his soule?

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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?

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

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?

Contextual Overview

²⁷Jesus and his cowboys rode off toward Caesarea Philippi. While they were riding along, Jesus asked, "What's the word on the street about me?" ²⁸They said, "Some say John the Baptist reborn and others call you Elijah, or some others say a cowboy of God from the old days." ²⁹Jesus continued to look ahead and said, "Who do y'all think I am?"Pete spat his words quickly, "You are the Chosen One. The one God said he'd send to save us all." ³⁰After a long silence, Jesus said, "Don't tell anyone else . . . not yet." ³¹Then Jesus told 'em about all the things the Son of Man would go through. He told 'em about all the suffering and rejection he would face from the religious know-it-alls, bigwig preachers, and others. He told 'em flat-out he would die and three days later he would be raised from the dead. ³²During this conversation, Pete took Jesus aside and tried to scold him about talking about such foolish things. ³³Jesus wasn't having none of it and said loud enough for everyone to hear, "Get back Satan before I stomp a mud hole in ya. You're only looking at things from a man's perspective and not the ways of God." ³⁴About this time, there were a bunch of people around. Jesus stood up in his stirrups and let out a whistle for everyone to pay attention. ³⁵He told 'em all, "If anyone wants to ride for my outfit, he's gotta give up always looking out for himself. You've got be ready for the world to make fun of you. Be ready to saddle up with me every single day. Any cowboy who rides for himself will end up dead, but anyone who rides only for me and the good news will find true life. ³⁶What good does owning the whole world do for a cowboy without a soul?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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.