Pick up your cross...and start walking!

Pick Up Your Cross

 

Luke 9:23 ESV / 21 helpful votes

 

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Luke 14:27 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes

 

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes

 

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 the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 John 3:1-3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Matthew 16:24-25 ESV / 11 helpful votes

 

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

John 8:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

Luke 9:23-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

Matthew 11:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

John 15:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Matthew 16:21-27 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ...

Matthew 10:39 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

1 Peter 1:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Colossians 3:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Romans 6:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

John 6:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

Mark 8:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

John 1:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Luke 6:46 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

Matthew 11:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

1 Peter 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

Colossians 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Romans 13:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

John 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Mark 8:34-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

Mark 8:27-38 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him. And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. ...

Matthew 16:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:21-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ...

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Deuteronomy 33:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy.’