For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:
Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow
I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes
Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in h
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn a
strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships t
and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to de
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may in
I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage;
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even
Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.
In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author o
They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives s
Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”
He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the
so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he mus
Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and