Popular Bible Verses from MRK 8

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For whoever desires to save his life and preserve it will lose it eternally. But whoever loses his life for the sake of Me and for the sake of the gospel will save it and find true life.

For what does it benefit or profit a man to gain possession of the whole world with all its wealth and power, yet forfeit his own soul in the process?

When Jesus had called the crowd to Himself along with His disciples, He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me and be My disciple, he must deny himself, refusing to make himself the centre. He must take up his cross daily like a condemned man walking to execution, and follow Me.

For what can a man give as an exchange or ransom to buy back his soul once it is lost? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, refusing to identify with Me publicly, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father, accompanied by the holy angels, for final judgment."

Jesus continued to press the question more personally: "But who do you yourselves say that I am?" In response, Peter spoke up and said to Him, "You are the Christ!"—the Messiah, the Anointed One of God.