Matthew 16:23-25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

²³ But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance^[a] to me, for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”

The Cross and Self-Denial

²⁴ Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.^{(A) 25} For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.