Luke 14:27

Luke 14:27
Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

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Deuteronomy 20:8
The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”

Judges 7:3
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

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Joshua 24:16
The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

Joshua 24:17
for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.

Joshua 24:18
Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”

Joshua 24:24
The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”

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Psalms 45:10
Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

Psalms 45:11
So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

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Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

John 8:12
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

John 21:22
Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

Ephesians 5:1
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

1 John 2:6
he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Revelation 14:4
These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

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Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Mark 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Luke 17:33
Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

John 12:24
Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

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Luke 16:16
“The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

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John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Acts 9:16
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

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Matthew 8:18
Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.

Mark 9:43
If 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,

Mark 9:44
‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

Mark 9:45
If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—

Mark 9:46
‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

Mark 9:47
If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

Mark 9:48
‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

Luke 9:61
Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

Luke 18:23
But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

Luke 18:29
He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,

John 6:66
At this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.

Acts 15:38
But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.

James 1:8
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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Matthew 27:32
As 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.

1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

Hebrews 13:13
Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

Revelation 11:8
Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

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