Then Jesus told His disciples, “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.
And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in h
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
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
Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he mus
Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships t
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
Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
Along the way they found a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross of Jesus.
Now Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and the soldiers
As the soldiers led Him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the country, and they put the cross on him