Luke 9:23 CSB
Then [Jesus] said to them all, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.”
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Luke 6:22 CSB
[Jesus said,] “Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you, insult you, and slander your name as evil because of [me].”
2 Timothy 3:12 CSB
All who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Philippians 1:29 CSB
For it has been granted to you on Christ’s behalf not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him…
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John 10:18 CSB
[Jesus said,] “No one takes [my life] from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”
“Christ says, “Give me all. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there. I want to have the whole tree down.” - CS Lewis
Galatians 2:20 CSB
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Luke 9:23-25 CSB
Then Jesus said to them all, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it. For what does it benefit someone if he gains the whole world, and yet loses or forfeits himself?”
2 Corinthians 5:17 CSB
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died
My richest gain I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my prideSee from his head, his hands, his feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down
Did ever such love and sorrow meet
Or thorns compose so rich a crownWere the whole realm of nature mine
That were an offering far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all! — Isaac Watts (“When I Survey The Wondrous Cross”, 1707)
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