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

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

38 For whoever [d]is ashamed [here and now] of Me and My words in this adulterous (unfaithful) and [preeminently] sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when He comes in the glory (splendor and majesty) of His Father with the holy angels.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 8:36 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  2. Mark 8:37 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  3. Mark 8:37 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  4. Mark 8:38 A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures.

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