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Matthew 16:24-25 — Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
~"For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
John 12:24-25 — ~"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
~"He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:10-12 — always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
So death works in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 4:16-17 — Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.
For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,
2 Corinthians 5:17 — Therefore if anyone is in Christ, {he is} a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Galatians 2:20 — ~"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the {life} which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Galatians 5:24 — Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Philippians 3:8 — More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
Colossians 2:11 — and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;
Colossians 2:20 — If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,
Colossians 3:3-5 — For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
2 Timothy 2:11 — It is a trustworthy statement: For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him;
This topic is from the BibleSteak Team.
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