²⁵ For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?^(A)

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’^{(A) 20} But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’^{(B) 21} So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”^(C)

³⁶ For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?

²⁶ For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

²⁷ but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.^(A)

⁵ Then the devil^[a] led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. ⁶ And the devil^[b] said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please.^{(A) 7} If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”

¹⁵ They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor,^[a] who loved the wages of doing wrong^{(A) 16} but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

¹⁷ These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the deepest darkness has been reserved.^(B)

²⁵ to take the place^[a] in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

⁵⁰ and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.^(A)