Taking Up One’s Cross to Follow Jesus

23 And he said to them all, “If anyone wants to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me, this person will save it. 25 For what is a person benefited if he[a] gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 9:25 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“gains”) which is understood as conditional