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Deny Yourself, Take Up Your Cross, And Follow Me. Some Here Will See My Kingdom

34 And having summoned the crowd with His disciples, He said to them, “If anyone wants to be following after Me, let him deny himself [a] and take up his cross[b], and be following Me. 35 For whoever wants to save[c] his life[d] will lose it. But whoever will lose his life for the sake of Me and the good-news will save it. 36 For what does it profit a person to gain the whole world, and forfeit[e] his life[f]?

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 8:34 That is, disown and refuse to follow the impulses of self.
  2. Mark 8:34 That is, the instrument of his or her death to self.
  3. Mark 8:35 That is, by avoiding his or her cross; refusing to deny himself for Christ.
  4. Mark 8:35 That is, life in an earthly sense.
  5. Mark 8:36 Or, suffer loss of.
  6. Mark 8:36 That is, life in an eternal sense.

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