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35 For 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].

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

37 For 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

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

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