What Does the Bible Say About Bearing The Cross?

Mark 8:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

Mark 8:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

John 19:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

Luke 23:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Mark 15:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.

Matthew 27:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Galatians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Romans 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.

Romans 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

John 12:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 23:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

Luke 9:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Matthew 26:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Matthew 11:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities. Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. ...

Isaiah 53:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.

John 19:1-42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” ...

23 Bible Verses about Bearing The Cross

Mark 8:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Mark 8:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 19:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 23:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 15:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 27:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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John 12:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 23:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 9:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 26:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 11:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 19:1-42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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23 Bible Verses about Bearing The Cross

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Mark 8:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Mark 8:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 19:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 23:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 15:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 27:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 12:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 23:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 9:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 26:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 11:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 19:1-42 ESV / 1 helpful vote