⁶ and he made us to be a Kingdom, priestsExodus 19:6; Isaiah 61:6 to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

²³ He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,^[a] and follow me.

³⁸ He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

³⁴ He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

²¹ Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

¹⁵ He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

²³ He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,^[a] and follow me.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.