Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even
My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kep
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by
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.
But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land h
Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in
And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that w
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
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and gre
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death.
But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucifi
Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in h
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go in
We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no
But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.
In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the pres
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body
Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And after He had said this, He told him,
strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships t
Along the way they found a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross of Jesus.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for
because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
“Lord, where are You going?” Simon Peter asked. Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now, but you wil
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter throu
On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will h
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.
Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:
In the hearing of all the people, Jesus said to His disciples,
Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to t
For we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives, accomplishing nothing, but being busybodies.
Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stum
Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and y