Matthew 16:24

Taking Up One's Cross To Follow Jesus

²³ But he turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! You hinder me, for you do not side with God, but with men!" ²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me. ²⁵ For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it.

Bear His Cross

Come After Me

Deny Himself

Follow Me

Jesus Said

Take Up His Cross

Put Aside

Jesus

No

Matthew 10:38

and no one who will not take up his cross and follow me is worthy of me.

Luke 14:27

For no one who does not take up his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

Matthew 27:32

As they went out of the city they came upon a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.

Mark 8:34

And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.

Mark 10:21

And Jesus looked at him and loved him, and he said to him, "There is one thing that you lack. Go, sell all you have, and give the money to the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

Luke 9:23-27

And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me.

Luke 23:26

As they led Jesus away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his back, for him to carry behind Jesus.

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.

Acts 14:22

reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.

Colossians 1:24

At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

1 Thessalonians 3:3

and encourage you not to be led astray, any of you, in all these troubles. You know yourselves that this is what we must expect,

2 Timothy 3:12

But everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

Hebrews 11:24-26

Faith made Moses, when he was grown up, refuse to be known as a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

1 Peter 4:1-2

Since Christ therefore has suffered in our physical nature, you must also arm yourselves with the same resolve. For he who suffers in his physical nature has done with sin,

Mark 15:21

And they forced a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross??ne Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.