Mark 8:34

Jesus calls all who would follow him to deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow him. Discipleship means costly, self-renouncing allegiance.

Cross-references · 40

• Matt 10:38He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.
• Luke 14:26–27“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
• John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
• 1 Kgs 14:8and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
• Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
• 1 Jn 3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• Num 14:24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
• Matt 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• Phil 3:10that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;
• Rom 8:17and 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.
• Luke 9:23He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
• Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Phil 3:7However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
• 1 Cor 4:9–13For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
• 1 Pet 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
• Gal 6:14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• 1 Cor 15:31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
• Mark 9:43–48If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
• 1 Pet 4:13But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
• Titus 2:12instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
• Rom 15:1–3Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Rom 6:6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
• Luke 14:33So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
• Matt 27:32As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.
• Luke 18:22When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”
• Luke 13:24“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;
• Matt 7:13–14“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
• Matt 5:29–30If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
• John 13:36–37Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”
• John 21:19–20Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
• 2 Pet 1:14knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
• Mark 7:14He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
• 1 Cor 9:19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
• Heb 13:13Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
• 2 Th 3:11For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.
• Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• Luke 20:45In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

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