Mark 8:34

Taking Up One's Cross To Follow Jesus

³³ and he, having turned, and having looked on his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, 'Get behind me, Adversary, because thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.' ³⁴ And having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, 'Whoever doth will to come after me -- let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me; ³⁵ for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;

Come After Me

Deny Himself

Follow Me

Jesus Said

Take Up His Cross

Put Aside

Whosoever Will Come

Jesus

Mark

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Matthew 10:38

and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

Luke 14:26-27

'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

John 10:27

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

Numbers 14:24

and My servant Caleb, because there hath been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me -- I have brought him in unto the land whither he hath entered, and his seed doth possess it.

1 Kings 14:8

and rend the kingdom from the house of David, and give it to thee, -- and thou hast not been as My servant David who kept My commands, and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only that which is right in Mine eyes,

Matthew 7:13-14

Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

Matthew 16:24

Then said Jesus to his disciples, 'If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

Mark 9:43-48

And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable --

Galatians 5:24

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

1 John 3:16

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

Matthew 5:29-30

'But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

Matthew 27:32

And coming forth, they found a man, a Cyrenian, by name Simon: him they impressed that he might bear his cross;

Mark 10:21

And Jesus having looked upon him, did love him, and said to him, 'One thing thou dost lack; go away, whatever thou hast -- sell, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me, having taken up the cross.'

Luke 9:23

And he said unto all, 'If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me;

Luke 13:24

'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

Luke 14:33

'So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

Luke 18:22

and having heard these things, Jesus said to him, 'Yet one thing to thee is lacking; all things -- as many as thou hast -- sell, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me;'

Luke 20:45

And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,

John 13:36-37

Simon Peter saith to him, 'Sir, whither dost thou go away?' Jesus answered him, 'Whither I go away, thou art not able now to follow me, but afterward thou shalt follow me.'

John 19:17

and bearing his cross, he went forth to the place called Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha;

John 21:19-20

and this he said, signifying by what death he shall glorify God; and having said this, he saith to him, 'Be following me.'

Acts 14:22

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

Romans 6:6

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

Romans 8:17

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

Romans 15:1-3

And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;

1 Corinthians 8:13

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

1 Corinthians 9:19

for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

1 Corinthians 15:31

Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Galatians 2:20

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

Galatians 6:14

And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

Philippians 3:7

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

Philippians 3:10

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

Colossians 1:24

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

2 Thessalonians 3:11

for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

Titus 2:12

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

Hebrews 13:13

now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing;

1 Peter 4:1

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

1 Peter 4:13

but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;

2 Peter 1:14

having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,

Revelation 2:10

'Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

Mark 7:14

And having called near all the multitude, he said to them, 'Hearken to me, ye all, and understand;