Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Ponder the path of your feet, then all your ways will be established.

Do not turn to the right hand or to the left; remove your foot from evil.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left.

And a highway shall be there, even a road; and it shall be called, The Way of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it. Whoever travels on it, though a fool, shall not go astray.

And He shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear a path! Remove the stumbling block out of the way of My people.

Thus says Jehovah, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is, and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.

And when He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before you.

Remember the Word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My Word, they will keep yours also.

They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must enter the kingdom of God through many afflictions.

and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,

For, in fact, we told you before when we were with you that we were about to suffer affliction, just as it happened, and you know.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.

For many are called, but few are chosen.

Then the kingdom of Heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,

But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all nodded and fell asleep.

Then all those virgins arose and prepared their lamps.

But the wise answered, saying, No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.

Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us!

Do not fear, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

Then one said to Him, Lord, are there few who are saved? And He said to them,

When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He will answer and say to you, I do not know you, where you are from,

But He will say, I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.

And they will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant will be saved.

And as Isaiah said before: Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah.

Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace no longer becomes grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

There is also an antitype which now saves us; immersion (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,