Mark 8:35

Taking Up One's Cross To Follow Jesus

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. ³⁶ For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?

For My Sake

Good News

Kingdom of God

On Earth

Whoever Desires to Save

Whoever Loses His Life for My Sake

On Account Of Me

Save His Life

Whoever Loses His Life

Whoever Wants To Save

Whosoever Will Save

O God

Mark

Sin

Matthew 10:39

Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.

Luke 17:33

Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will preserve it.

1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do it all for the sake of the good news, so as to share with others in its blessings.

2 Timothy 1:8

So you must never be ashamed of me His prisoner, but suffer for the good news in fellowship with me and by the power of God.

Matthew 5:10-12

"Blessed are those who suffer persecution for being and doing right, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

Matthew 16:25

For whoever wants to save his higher life will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will find the higher life.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has given up home or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms, for my sake, will receive many times as much, and in addition will be in possession of eternal life.

Luke 6:22-23

Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

Luke 9:24

For whoever chooses to save his lower life will lose his higher life, but whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will save his higher life.

John 12:25-26

Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.

John 15:20-21

Remember what I once told you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

Acts 9:16

For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."

Acts 20:24

But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.

Acts 21:13

Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? Why, I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

2 Corinthians 12:10

So I most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the strength of Christ may overshadow me. That is why I take such pleasure in weaknesses, insults, distresses, persecution, and difficulties, which I endure for Christ's sake, for it is when I am consciously weak that I am really strong.

2 Timothy 2:11-13

This message is to be trusted: "If we indeed have died with Him, we will live with Him too.

2 Timothy 4:6-8

My life, indeed, is already ebbing out, and the time has come for me to sail away.

Hebrews 11:35

Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.

1 Peter 4:12-16

Dearly beloved, do not be astonished that a test by fire is coming upon you, as though something strange were happening to you,

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.

Revelation 7:14

I answered him, "You know, my lord." He said to me: "These are the people who are coming through the great persecution, who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 12:11

But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the message to which they bore testimony, because they did not cling to life but courted death.