Mark 8:34

Modern English Version

When He had called the people to Him, with His disciples, He said to them, “If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:8

and took the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it you. Yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart to do only that which was right in My eyes,

Numbers 14:24

But My servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit with him and followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land where he went, and his seed will possess it.

Matthew 10:38

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

Matthew 16:24

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

Matthew 27:32

As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. This man they compelled to bear His cross.

Mark 10:21

Then Jesus, looking upon him, loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. And come, take up the cross and follow Me.”

Mark 7:14

When He had called all the people to Him, He said, “Listen to Me, every one of you, and understand:

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow gate. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Luke 14:33

So likewise, any of you who does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

Luke 18:22

When Jesus heard this, He said to him, “Yet you lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. And come, follow Me.”

Luke 20:45

Then as all the people heard, He said to His disciples,

Luke 9:23

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

John 10:27

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

John 19:17

He went out, carrying His own cross, to a place called The Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

Acts 14:22

strengthening the minds of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith, to go through many afflictions and thus enter the kingdom of God.

Romans 6:6

knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we should no longer be slaves to sin.

Romans 8:17

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified with Him.

1 Corinthians 15:31

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to stumble.

1 Corinthians 9:19

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself servant to all, that I might win even more.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in my body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Galatians 5:24

Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Galatians 6:14

God forbid that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Philippians 3:10

to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Philippians 3:7

But what things were gain to me, I have counted these things to be loss for the sake of Christ.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake and fill up in my flesh that which is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death the parts of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that there are some among you who live in idleness, mere busybodies, not working at all.

Titus 2:12

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, righteously, and in godliness in this present world,

Hebrews 13:13

Therefore let us go forth to Him outside the camp, bearing the reproach that He bore.

1 Peter 4:1

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

1 Peter 4:13

But rejoice insofar as you share in Christ’s sufferings, so that you may rejoice and be glad also in the revelation of His glory.

2 Peter 1:14

knowing that soon I will take off this body, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

1 John 3:16

By this we know the love of God: that He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Revelation 2:10

Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.