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Take Up Your Cross

34 And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to [a]come after Me, he must deny himself, and (A)take up his cross and follow Me. 35 For (B)whoever wishes to save his [b]life will lose it, but whoever loses his [c]life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

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  1. Mark 8:34 Some mss follow
  2. Mark 8:35 Or soul
  3. Mark 8:35 Or soul