Take Up Your Cross

(Mark 8:34–38, Luke 9:23–27)

Then Jesus told His disciples,“If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. 25 For whoever vvv wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 What does it profit[fn] a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what {can} a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.

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Truly I tell you, some who are standing here vvv vvv will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.” 17