And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

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.

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.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.

Then He said to them all, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or suffers loss?

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

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.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name.

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.

that no one should be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has been released from sin,

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?

explaining and setting forth that the Christ needed to suffer and rise again from the dead, and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Author of their salvation complete through sufferings.

He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you

Righteousness shall go before Him, and shall set us in the way of His steps.

For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Be imitators of me, just as I am also of Christ.

And walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

By this we know the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and through the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives unto death.