Thematic Bible: Cross
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Cross » Jesus crucified on
They forced a certain passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry His cross -- Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.
this very Jesus, I say, after He was betrayed, in accordance with the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you had wicked men kill by nailing Him to a cross;
canceled the note that stood against us, with its requirements, and has put it out of our way by nailing it to the cross.
keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
"Therefore, let all the descendants of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."
you and all the people of Israel must know that it is by the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead -- yes, I repeat it, it is by His authority that this man stands here before you well.
we are preaching the Christ who was crucified -- a message that is a trap-stick to the Jews and nonsense to the Greeks,
Because He was recognized as a man, in reality as well as in outward form, He finally humiliated Himself in obedience so as to die, even to die on a cross.
and that through Him He might reconcile to Himself all things on earth or in heaven, making this peace through the blood He shed On His cross.
to reconcile them both to God with His cross after He had killed the hostility through it.
Not one of this world's leaders understands it, for if they had, they would never have crucified our glorious Lord.
As they were going out of the city, they found a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.
Now as they led Him away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his shoulders, for him to carry as he walked behind Jesus.
for I determined, while among you, to be unconscious of everything but Jesus Christ and Him as crucified.
Cross » Figurative
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!
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.
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."
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.
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Giving, Of OneselfAbstinence as a disciplineCommitment, to Jesus ChristChristlikenessAttitudes Of Self Denialdiscipleship, nature ofdiscipleship, cost ofdisciples, characteristics ofGod, Suffering OfGospel, Requirements OfImitatingMartyrdom, Qualities OfParticipation, In ChristRenunciationSelf DenialUnion With Christ, Significance Of
UnselfishnessChrist Our ExampleRole ModelsCommandments Of ChristCrucifying Our FleshChrist Speaking To DisciplesChrist's Disciples Will SufferInstructions About FollowingOur CrucifixionConditions Of Fruit-bearingLearning From JesusParticipation In Christ SufferingsThe CrossDiscipleshipdenialfollowing
For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you in tears, who practice living as the enemies of the cross of Christ.
and nobody is worthy of me who does not take up his cross and follow me.
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.
Whoever does not persevere in carrying his own cross and thus following after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news -- but not by means of wisdom and rhetoric, so that the cross of Christ may not be emptied of its power. For the message of the cross is nonsense to those who are in the process of being destroyed, but it is the power of God to those who are in the process of being saved.
As for me, myself, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In such a case the hindrance done by the cross has presumably ceased!
Cross » The instrument of death
and He went out carrying the cross by Himself to a spot called The Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.
keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
Because He was recognized as a man, in reality as well as in outward form, He finally humiliated Himself in obedience so as to die, even to die on a cross.
As they were going out of the city, they found a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.
Cross » Carried by » Simon
They forced a certain passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry His cross -- Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.
As they were going out of the city, they found a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.
Now as they led Him away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his shoulders, for him to carry as he walked behind Jesus.
Cross » Carried by » Jesus
and He went out carrying the cross by Himself to a spot called The Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.
Israel » Cross » Jordon river
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