Mark 8:34-35

Take Up Your Cross

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34} Summoning the crowd along with His disciples, He said to them, “If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself,^(A) take up his cross,^(B) and follow Me.^(C) ^{Tools
35} For whoever wants to save^(D) his life will lose it,^(E) but whoever loses^(F) his life^(G) because of Me^(H) and the gospel^(I) will save it.^(J)

Cross references:

A. Mark 8:34: Mark 10:45

B. Mark 8:34: Luke 9:23

C. Mark 8:34: John 8:12; 3 John 1:9

D. Mark 8:35: Acts 16:30

E. Mark 8:35: 1 John 3:16

F. Mark 8:35: Matthew 16:26

G. Mark 8:35: Matthew 10:39

H. Mark 8:35: Mark 10:29; Romans 8:36

I. Mark 8:35: Mark 1:1; Philippians 1:5

J. Mark 8:35: Matthew 16:25; Luke 9:24