Мark, VIII:34-IX:1

Мark, VIII:34-IX:1

To save his life

  • About the Sunday of Veneration of the Cross, about the cross of Ukraine and Ukrainian people

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  • About the cross of Jesus Christ, about the cross of ordinary person and about the opportunity to gain through lost

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Gospel (Мark, VIII:34-IX:1)

Gospel (Мark, VIII:34-IX:1)

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34 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.

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

36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

37 For what can a man give in return for his soul?

38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

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1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.