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

³⁶ What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

²⁶ What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

¹⁹ And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

²⁰ “But God said to him, ‘You fool!^(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.^(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’^(C)

²¹ “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”^(D)

⁵ The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.^{(A) 6} And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me,^(B) and I can give it to anyone I want to. ⁷ If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

¹⁵ They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam^(A) son of Bezer,^[a] who loved the wages of wickedness. ¹⁶ But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—an animal without speech—who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.^(B)

¹⁷ These people are springs without water^(C) and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.^(D)

²⁷ No, I strike a blow to my body^(A) and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.^(B)

²⁵ to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.”