Mark 8:37

Contemporary English Version

What could you give to get back your soul?

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?

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?

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

Contextual Overview

²⁷ Jesus and his disciples went to the villages near the town of Caesarea Philippi. As they were walking along, he asked them, "What do people say about me?" ²⁸ The disciples answered, "Some say you are John the Baptist or maybe Elijah. Others say you are one of the prophets." ²⁹ Then Jesus asked them, "But who do you say I am?" "You are the Messiah!" Peter replied. ³⁰ Jesus warned the disciples not to tell anyone about him. ³¹ Jesus began telling his disciples what would happen to him. He said, "The nation's leaders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law of Moses will make the Son of Man suffer terribly. He will be rejected and killed, but three days later he will rise to life." ³² Then Jesus explained clearly what he meant. Peter took Jesus aside and told him to stop talking like that. ³³ But when Jesus turned and saw the disciples, he corrected Peter. He said to him, "Satan, get away from me! You are thinking like everyone else and not like God." ³⁴ Jesus then told the crowd and the disciples to come closer, and he said: If any of you want to be my followers, you must forget about yourself. You must take up your cross and follow me. ³⁵ If you want to save your life, you will destroy it. But if you give up your life for me and for the good news, you will save it. ³⁶ What will you gain, if you own the whole world but destroy yourself?

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.