Mark 8:34-9:1 Part 1 of 3

    Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels."

    And he said to them, "Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power." 

 

Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me."

Matthew 10:32-33  

    "Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven."

Matthew 10:38  

"Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me."  (see all Matthew 10)

Matthew 16:24  

    Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me."

Luke 9:23  

    Then he said to them all: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me."

Luke 14:27  

"And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple."

John 12:26  

    "Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant will also be. My Father will honor the one who serves me."  (see John 12:23-33)     

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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