Matthew 16:24ESV / 14 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.
Matthew 10:38ESV / 14 helpful votes
And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
John 5:24ESV / 12 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Galatians 2:20ESV / 11 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.
Luke 14:27ESV / 10 helpful votes
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Mark 8:34ESV / 10 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 Corinthians 1:9ESV / 9 helpful votes
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
John 19:17ESV / 9 helpful votes
And he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
Ephesians 2:10ESV / 7 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:8-9ESV / 7 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
1 Corinthians 1:18ESV / 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.
John 14:1-31ESV / 6 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...
Romans 5:16ESV / 4 helpful votes
And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
Mark 15:21ESV / 4 helpful votes
And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
1 John 1:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Hebrews 12:2ESV / 3 helpful votes
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
2 Timothy 1:6ESV / 3 helpful votes
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
1 Thessalonians 5:22ESV / 3 helpful votes
Abstain from every form of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:14ESV / 3 helpful votes
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
Colossians 2:14ESV / 3 helpful votes
By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
Philippians 2:8ESV / 3 helpful votes
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Ephesians 1:3ESV / 3 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Galatians 6:14ESV / 3 helpful votes
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Galatians 5:24ESV / 3 helpful votes
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:3ESV / 3 helpful votes
I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
2 Corinthians 5:17ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Corinthians 10:13ESV / 3 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Romans 11:6ESV / 3 helpful votes
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
Romans 8:1ESV / 3 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1-39ESV / 3 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...
Romans 7:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Romans 6:23ESV / 3 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:14ESV / 3 helpful votes
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
John 15:1-27ESV / 3 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 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. ...
John 3:16ESV / 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.
Luke 23:26ESV / 3 helpful votes
And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.
Luke 9:23ESV / 3 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 9:23-25ESV / 3 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. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
Mark 15:30ESV / 3 helpful votes
Save yourself, and come down from the cross!”
Mark 8:1-38ESV / 3 helpful votes
In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.” And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?” And he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.” ...
Matthew 28:11ESV / 3 helpful votes
While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place.
Matthew 27:40ESV / 3 helpful votes
And saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”
Matthew 27:32ESV / 3 helpful votes
As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.
Matthew 10:37ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 7:21ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Isaiah 19:1-20:6ESV / 3 helpful votes
An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them. And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, each against another and each against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom; and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers; and I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master, and a fierce king will rule over them, declares the Lord God of hosts. And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched, ...
Psalm 55:22ESV / 3 helpful votes
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
1 Kings 19:7ESV / 3 helpful votes
And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.”
Exodus 20:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
1 John 5:16ESV / 2 helpful votes
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
1 John 3:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
1 John 1:8ESV / 2 helpful votes
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
2 Timothy 2:11ESV / 2 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him;
Philippians 4:6-7ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:10ESV / 2 helpful votes
So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Ephesians 4:15ESV / 2 helpful votes
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Ephesians 2:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Ephesians 1:14ESV / 2 helpful votes
Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Galatians 6:2ESV / 2 helpful votes
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 3:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
2 Corinthians 5:21ESV / 2 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 8:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
In order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Romans 6:10ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
Romans 6:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 5:18ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Romans 5:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 4:5ESV / 2 helpful votes
And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Romans 4:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.
Romans 4:1-25ESV / 2 helpful votes
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, ...
Acts 17:11ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Acts 2:38ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:37-39ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
John 15:5ESV / 2 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.
John 14:6ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 10:5ESV / 2 helpful votes
A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
John 3:16-17ESV / 2 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Luke 6:46ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
Mark 10:21ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Mark 8:34-38ESV / 2 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. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Mark 8:34-35ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 27:42ESV / 2 helpful votes
“He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
Matthew 27:31-32ESV / 2 helpful votes
And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him. As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.
Matthew 7:23ESV / 2 helpful votes
And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Matthew 6:24ESV / 2 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Matthew 5:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Isaiah 15:1-9ESV / 2 helpful votes
An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone. He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn; in the streets they wear sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears. Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles. My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction; ...
Isaiah 3:1-26ESV / 2 helpful votes
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...
