Mark 8:34

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Mark 8:32–36 · Berean Standard Bible

32 He spoke this message quite frankly, and Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

33 But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

34 Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.

36 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

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Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:

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Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

Luke 20:45

In the hearing of all the people, Jesus said to His disciples,

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If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

Mark 9:45

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

Mark 9:47

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

Mark 9:48

where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’

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If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Matthew 5:30

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

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Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

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But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.

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We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

Romans 15:2

Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

Romans 15:3

For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

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Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

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But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

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It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

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and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.

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Romans 6:6

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Romans 8:17

And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

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Galatians 5:24

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Galatians 6:14

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Philippians 3:10

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2 Thessalonians 3:11

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I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.

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My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

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Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.

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because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

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