25 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?

Other Translations of Luke 9:25

King James Version

25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

English Standard Version

25  For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?

The Message

25 What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you?

New King James Version

25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?

New Living Translation

25 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed?

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 9:25

Commentary on Luke 9:18-27

(Read Luke 9:18-27)

It is an unspeakable comfort that our Lord Jesus is God's Anointed; this signifies that he was both appointed to be the Messiah, and qualified for it. Jesus discourses concerning his own sufferings and death. And so far must his disciples be from thinking how to prevent his sufferings, that they must prepare for their own. We often meet with crosses in the way of duty; and though we must not pull them upon our own heads, yet, when they are laid for us, we must take them up, and carry them after Christ. It is well or ill with us, according as it is well or ill with our souls. The body cannot be happy, if the soul be miserable in the other world; but the soul may be happy, though the body is greatly afflicted and oppressed in this world. We must never be ashamed of Christ and his gospel.