Breaking Away from the World (Discipleship)
- Matthew 10:34-39 Do not think that I have come to bring peace
upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For
I have come to part asunder a man from his father, and a daughter from
her mother, and a newly married wife from her mother-in-law - And a man's
foes will be they of his own household. He who loves father or mother more
than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more
than Me is not worthy of Me; And he who does not take up his cross
and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me, conforming wholly to My example
in living and, if need be, in dying also] is not worthy of Me. Whoever
finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life on My account will
find it.
- Matthew 19:29 And anyone and everyone who has left houses or
brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for My name's
sake will receive many times more and will inherit eternal life.
- Mark 3:33-35 And He replied, Who are My mother and My brothers?
And looking around on those who sat in a circle about Him, He said, See!
Here are My mother and My brothers; For whoever does the things
God wills is My brother and sister and mother!
- Mark 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength:
this is the first commandment. (King James)
- Mark 8:34-37 And Jesus called the throng with His disciples
and said to them, If anyone intends to come after Me, let him deny himself
[forget, ignore, disown, and lose sight of himself and his own interests]
and take up his cross, and follow with Me. For whoever wants to save his
life, will lose it; and whoever gives up his life for My sake and
the Gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole
world, and forfeit his life? For what can a man give as an exchange (a
compensation, a ransom, in return) for his life?
- Luke 9:23-25 And He said to all, If any person wills to come
after Me let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me
[cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and,
if need be in dying also]. For whoever would preserve his life and
save it will lose and destroy it, but whoever loses his life for
My sake, he will preserve and save it.
- Luke 9:59-62 And He said to another, Become My disciple, side
with My party, and accompany Me! But he replied, Lord, permit me
first to go and bury (await the death of) my father. But Jesus said to
him, Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and
publish abroad throughout all regions the kingdom of God. Another also
said, I will follow You, Lord, and become Your disciple and
side with Your party; but let me first say good-bye to those at
my home. Jesus said to him, No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks
back is fit for the kingdom of God.
- Luke 12:49-53 I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how
I wish that it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be
baptized, and how greatly and sorely I am urged on (impelled, constrained)
until it is accomplished! Do you suppose that I have come to give peace
upon earth? No, I say to you, but rather division; For from now
on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against
three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father,
mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against
her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
- Luke 14:26-27 If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father
and mother and his wife and children and brothers and sisters - and even
his own life also - he cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not persevere
and carry his own cross and come after (follow) Me cannot be My disciple.
- Luke 14:33 So then, any of you who does not forsake (renounce,
surrender claim to, give up, say good-bye to) all that he has cannot be
My disciple.
- Luke 16:15 But He said to them, You are the ones who declare
yourselves just and upright before men, but God knows your hearts.
For what is exalted and highly thought of among men is detestable
and abhorrent (an abomination) in the sight of God.
- John 12:25-26 Anyone who loves his life loses it, but anyone
who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. [Whoever
has no love for, no concern for, no regard for his life here on earth,
but despises it, preserves his life forever and ever.] If anyone serves
Me, he must continue to follow Me [to cleave steadfastly to Me, conform
wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying] and wherever
I am, there will My servant be also. If anyone serves Me, the Father will
honor him.
Recognizing, Believing, & Following the
Representative from the Kingdom of Heaven
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