Mark 8:35-37

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³⁵For whoever wants to save his [^[a]higher, spiritual, eternal] life, will lose it [the ^[b]lower, natural, temporal life ^[c]which is lived only on earth]; and whoever gives up his life [which is lived only on earth] for My sake and the Gospel’s will save it [his ^[d]higher, spiritual life ^[e]in the eternal kingdom of God].

³⁶For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life [^[f]in the eternal kingdom of God]?

³⁷For what can a man give as an exchange (^[g]a compensation, a ransom, in return) for his [blessed] life [^[h]in the eternal kingdom of God]?

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Footnotes

Mark 8:35 Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausett and David Brown, A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments.
Mark 8:35 Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausett and David Brown, A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments.
Mark 8:35 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
Mark 8:35 Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausett and David Brown, A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments.
Mark 8:35 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
Mark 8:36 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
Mark 8:37 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
Mark 8:37 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.