45 Bible Verses about The Cross

there they crucified him, along with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

For many ??as I have often told you and tell you now with tears ??many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

Now beside the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.

whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Come down from the cross and save yourself!"

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;

Now when the army-captain who stood facing him saw that he expired in this way, he said, "This man was certainly a son of God."

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

and he went away, carrying the cross by himself, to the spot called the 'place of the skull' ??the Hebrew name is Golgotha;

They also crucified two robbers along with him, one at his right and one at his left.

The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you murdered by hanging him on a gibbet.

As they went out they met a Cyrenian called Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.

this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children!

"I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

Two robbers were also crucified with him at that time, one on the right hand and one on the left.

He cancelled the regulations that stood against us ??all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,

saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself."

he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

For though he was crucified in his weakness, he lives by the power of God; and though I am weak as he was weak, you will find I am alive as he is alive by the power of God.

We believe that as we have died with Christ we shall also live with him;

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

Now at the spot where he had been crucified there was an orchard, and in the orchard a new tomb where no one had yet been laid;

And he added, "Jesus, do not forget me when you come to reign."

Pilate had written an inscription to be put on the cross; what he wrote was, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

They forced Simon a Cyrenian who was passing on his way from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus) to carry his cross,

It happened on one of these days that he embarked in a boat alone with his disciples and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

and by him it willed to reconcile in his own person all on earth and in heaven alike, in a peace made by the blood of his cross.

So when Jesus saw his mother and his favourite disciple standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, there is your son!"

only, one of the soldiers pricked his side with a lance, and out came blood and water in a moment.

Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

When twelve o'clock came, darkness covered the whole land till three o'clock,

And when Jesus took the vinegar, he said, "It is finished," bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.

That same day when evening came he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side;"

These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

When they came to a place called Golgotha (meaning the place of a skull),

As they led him off they caught hold of Simon a Cyrenian on his way from the country and laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.