⁵ Know, then, in your heart that, as a parent disciplines a child, so the Lord your God disciplines you.^{(A) 6} Therefore keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.^(B)

⁵ If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.^{(A) 6} But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.^(B)

Peter’s Declaration about Jesus

¹⁸ Once when Jesus^[a] was praying alone, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”^{(A) 19} They answered, “John the Baptist; but others, Elijah; and still others, that one of the ancient prophets has arisen.”^{(B) 20} Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Messiah^[b] of God.”^(C)

Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection

²¹ He sternly ordered and commanded them not to tell anyone,^{(D) 22} saying, “The Son of Man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes and be killed and on the third day be raised.”^(E)

²³ Then he said to them all, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.^{(F) 24} For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it.^{(G) 25} For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?^{(H) 26} Those who are ashamed of me and of my words, of them the Son of Man will be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.^{(I) 27} Indeed, truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”^(J)