Mark 8:34 Cross References - MNT

³⁴ Then summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said: "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

²⁹ And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit. ³⁰ And if your right hand entices you into sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

¹³ "Enter by the narrow gate; for broad is the gate and wide the road that leads to destruction, and many are they who go in by it; ¹⁴ "but the gate is narrow and the road is steep, which leads to life, and they are few who find it.

³⁸ "and he who does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples. "If any man wishes to come after me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.

³² And as they went out they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, whom they compelled to go with them to carry his cross.

¹⁴ Then again he called the crowd to him and said:

⁴³ "If your hand cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to be maimed and to enter into life than to have two hands and go away into hell, into the fire that cannot be put out. ⁴⁴ OMITTED TEXT. ⁴⁵ If your foot cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to enter into the life a cripple, than to have two feet and be cast into hell. ⁴⁶ OMITTED TEXT. ⁴⁷ If your eye cause you to stumble, tear it out! It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God one-eyed that to keep both your eyes and be cast into hell, ⁴⁸ where their worm never dies and the fire does not go out.

²¹ Jesus loved him as he looked at him, and said: "One thing you lack. Go, sell all you have and give to the poor; and you shall have wealth in heaven; and come, follow me."

²³ And he said to all. "If any man wills to follow me, Let him renounce self and take up his cross daily and follow me.

²⁴ "Struggle to enter in by the narrow door," he answered, "for I tell you that many will try to enter and not be able,

²⁶ "If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine. ²⁷ "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

³³ "Just so any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

²² And receiving this reply, Jesus said to him. "One thing you are still lacking. Sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me."

⁴⁵ Then, in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples.

²⁷ "My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me.

³⁶ Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" "Where I am going," answered Jesus, "you cannot follow me now; but you shall follow me later." ³⁷ "Why cannot I follow you now, Master?" said Peter. "I will lay down my life for you." Jesus answered him.

¹⁷ So they took Jesus, who went forth bearing his own cross, to a place called The Place of a Skull—in the Hebrew tongue, Golgotha.

¹⁹ This he said to show by what kind of death Peter was to glorify God. After speaking thus, he said to him, "Follow me." ²⁰ Peter turned around and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following—he who at the supper leaned back upon his breast and said, "Lord, who is to betray you?"

²² Everywhere they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold to the faith. "It is through many tribulations," they said, "that we must enter into the kingdom of God."

⁶ For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin—

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to seek our own pleasure. ² Let each one of us try to make his neighbor happy for his good, unto his upbuilding. ³ For even Christ pleased not himself; but as it is written, The reproaches of those who were reproaching thee fell upon me.

⁹ But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels. ¹⁰ For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast. ¹¹ Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows. ¹² Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands. ¹³ When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

¹³ Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

¹⁹ Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.

³¹ Every day I am facing death, my brothers, I affirm it by that pride in you which I have through Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

²⁴ And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites.

¹⁴ God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

⁷ But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ.

¹⁰ I long to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, by sharing the likeness of his death;

²⁴ I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

⁵ So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

¹¹ But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

¹² And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

¹³ Let us then go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

¹ Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin),

¹³ But be glad in the degree in which you share in the sufferings of Christ; so that when his glory shall be revealed, you too may be glad with triumphant gladness.

¹⁴ since I know that the time for me to strike tent comes swiftly on, even as our Lord Jesus Christ pointed out to me.

¹⁶ By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

¹⁰ Fear not what you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested, and you will have persecution for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.