Mark 8:34

Taking Up One's Cross To Follow Jesus

³³ But He turned and glanced at His disciples and reproved Peter by saying, "Get out of my way, Satan, for this view of yours is not from God but from men!" ³⁴ Then He called the people to Him along with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say, 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me. ³⁵ For whoever wants to save his higher life, will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for me and for the good news, will save the higher life.

Come After Me

Deny Himself

Follow Me

Jesus Said

Take Up His Cross

Put Aside

Whosoever Will Come

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Matthew 10:38

and nobody is worthy of me who does not take up his cross and follow me.

Luke 14:26-27

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

John 10:27

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me,

Matthew 7:13-14

"Go in by the narrow gate, for broad and roomy is the road that leads to destruction, and many are going in by it.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

Mark 9:43-48

If your hand makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life maimed than keep both your hands and go down to the pit, to the fire that is never put out.

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the lower nature with its passions and evil cravings.

1 John 3:16

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Matthew 5:29-30

So if your right eye causes you to do wrong, pluck it out of your way; for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

Matthew 27:32

As they were going out of the city, they found a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.

Mark 10:21

Then Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing. Go, sell everything you have, and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

Luke 9:23

Then He said to them all, "If anyone chooses to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders daily, and continue to follow me.

Luke 13:24

"You must struggle on to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you, many will try to get in, but will not succeed,

Luke 14:33

"Just so, no one of you who does not forsake everything that he has, can be a disciple of mine.

Luke 18:22

When Jesus heard this, He said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell everything you have, and distribute the money among the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

Luke 20:45

While all the people were listening, He said to His disciples,

John 13:36-37

Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "I am going where you cannot follow me just now, but you will later follow me."

John 19:17

and He went out carrying the cross by Himself to a spot called The Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.

John 21:19-20

He said this to point out the sort of death by which Peter was to glorify God. So after He had said this, He said to Peter, "Keep on following me!"

Acts 14:22

strengthening the hearts of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, and warning them that it is through enduring many hardships that we must get into the kingdom of God.

Romans 6:6

for we know that our former self was crucified with Him, to make our body that is liable to sin inactive, so that we might not a moment longer continue to be slaves to sin.

Romans 8:17

and if children, then also heirs, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ if in reality we share His sufferings, so that we may share His glory too.

Romans 15:1-3

It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.

1 Corinthians 8:13

So then, if food can make my brother fall, I will never, no, never, eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from falling.

1 Corinthians 9:19

Yes, indeed, though I am free from any human power, I have made myself a slave to everybody, to win as many as possible.

1 Corinthians 15:31

I protest, by the boasting which I do about you, my brothers, through our union with Christ Jesus our Lord, I myself run the risk of dying every single day!

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Galatians 6:14

But may it never be mine to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world!

Philippians 3:7

But for Christ's sake I have counted all that was gain to me as loss.

Philippians 3:10

Yes, I long to come to know Him; that is, the power of His resurrection and so to share with Him his sufferings as to be continuously transformed by His death,

Colossians 1:24

I am now glad to be suffering for you, and in my own person I am filling in what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for His body, that is, the church.

Colossians 3:5

So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

But we are informed that some among you are living as shirkers, mere busybodies, instead of busy at work.

Titus 2:12

training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

Hebrews 13:13

Let us, therefore, go to Him outside the camp, enduring the reproach that He endured;

1 Peter 4:1

So then, since Christ has suffered in our physical form, you too must arm yourselves with the same determination. For whoever suffers in his physical form has done with sin,

1 Peter 4:13

but so far as you are sharing Christ's sufferings, keep on rejoicing, so that at the uncovering of His glory you may rejoice triumphantly.

2 Peter 1:14

because I know that the removal of my bodily tent is to be very soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

Revelation 2:10

Do not be so afraid of what you are to suffer. See! The devil is going to throw some of you into prison to be tested there and for ten days to suffer pressing troubles. Each one of you must prove to be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the crown of life.

Mark 7:14

Again He called the people to Him and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.