"Then Jesus told his disciples, 'If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself

and take up his cross and follow me."" -Matt 16:24

"And whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." -Matt. 20:27,28
"Finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my Son'. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir, Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.' And they took
Him, and threw him out of the vinyard and killed him." -Matt 21:38,39
"You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." -Matt 26:2
"Then He said to them, 'My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.' And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying 'My Father, if it be possible, let this cup
pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.'"
"The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day." -Mark 2:20
"Jesus said to them, 'the cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized."
"For the Son of Man goes as it has been written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born." -Mark 14:21
"And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, 'Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed (and a sword will pierce through your own soul
also) so that the thoughts from many hearts will be revealed." -Luke 2:34,35
"And behold, two men were talking with Him, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of his Exodus, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem." -Luke 9:30-31
"When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe; but when one stronger than he attacks him ad overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his
spoil." -Luke 11:21,22
"For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Ninevah, so will the Son of Man be to this generation." -Luke 11:30
"I have a baptism to be baptized with , and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!" -Luke 12:50
"Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem." -Luke 13:33
"And He took bread, and when He had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them saying 'This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. And likewise the cup after they had eaten,
saying 'this cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood." -Luke 22:19-20
"But the other rebuked him, saying, 'Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has
done nothing wrong."-23:40,41
"And now brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But what God foretold by the mouth of all his prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He thus fulfilled." -Acts 3:17,18
"For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they didnt recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. And
though they found in Him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed. And when they had carried out all that was written of Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid him in a
tomb." -Acts 13:27-29
"Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which He obtained with His own blood." -Acts 20:28
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a pripitiation by his blood, to be
received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over former sins." Romans 3:23-25
"who was delivered up for our trespasses" -Rom 4:25a
"For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly." -Rom 5:6
"but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since therefore we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God." -
Rom 5:9,10
"Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?" -Rom 6:3
"We know that our old man was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from
sin." -Rom 6:6-7
"Likewise my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit to God." -
Rom 7:4
"He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" -Rom 8:32
"For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be lord both of the dead and of the living." -Rom 14:9
"Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you?" - 1Cor1:13
"but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God." 1:23-24
"For Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." -1Cor
5:7,8
"The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?" -1Cor 10:16
"For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures" -1Cor 15:3
"We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed, perplexed, but not driven to despair, persecuted, but not forsaken, struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that
the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies."-2Cor 4:8-10
"For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died, and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselved but for Him
who for their sake died and was raised." -2 Cor 5:14,15
"For our sake He made Him who knew no sin to be sin, that in Him we might become the righteousness of God." -2Cor 5:21
"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, for your sake He became poor, so that you by his povery might become rich." -2Cor 8:9
"For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but in dealing with you we will live with Him by the power of God." -2Cor13:4
"Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sinse to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father"-1:3,4
"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 I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."-Gal. 2:20
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree" -so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the
Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith. -Gal. 3:13,14
"And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." -Gal 5:24
"But far be it from me to boast in anything but the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, byu which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for
anything, but a new creation." -Gal 6:14,15
"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace." -Eph. 1:7
"But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ." -Eph. 2:13
"and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility." -Eph. 2:16
"And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." -Eph 5:2
"Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that He might sanctify her."-Eph 5:25
"Have this mind among yourselved, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a
servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." -Phil 2:5-8
"For many, I have told you, and even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with their minds set on earthly things." -
Phil 3:18-19
"For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of His cross." -Col 1:20
"And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him , having forgiven us all our trespasses, by cancelling the record of debt that stood
against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in Him." -Col 2:13-15
"For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God."-Col 3:3
"If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were slill alive in the world, do you submit to regulations"-Col 2:20
"For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him." -1Thess 5:9
"For since we believe Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep." -1Thess 4:14
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time." -1Tim 2:7
"For the saying is trustworthy, 'If we have died with Him, we will also live with Him" -2Tim 2:11
"He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of His power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the
Majesty on High." -Heb 1:3
"But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for
everyone." -Heb 2:8
"For it was fitting that He, for who and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering." -Heb 3:10
"Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver
all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery." -Heb 2:14,15
"Therefor he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because
he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted." -Heb 2:17,18
"Although he was a son, he learned obeience through what He suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him." -Heb 5:8,9
"He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself." -He 7:27
"He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption." -Heb 9:12
"How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God." -Heb 9:14
"Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as
it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." -Heb 9:10
"For when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single
offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified." -Heb 10:12-14
"Therefore brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through His flesh"-Heb 10:19
"looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the Joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." -Heb 12:2
"Consider Him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your
blood." -Heb 12:3,4
"to Jesus, the mediator of a better covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel." -Heb 12:24
"So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured." -Heb 13:12
"And if you call on Him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knwoing that you were ransomed from the futile ways
inherited by your forefathers, not with pershable thigs such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot." -1Pet. 1:17-19
"Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when
he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 1Pet 1:10,11
"But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leacing you an example, so that you
might follow in His steps." -1Pet 1:21,22
"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." -1 Pet 2:24
"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but being made alive in the spirit." -1Pet 3:18
"Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer
for human passions but for the will of God." -1 Pet 4:1,2
"But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin."-1John 1:7
"This is He who came by water and by blood - Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. 1John 5:6
"By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers." -1John 3:16
"You know that he appeared to take away sins and that in him is no sin. No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning no one who keeps on sinning has either seen Him nor known him." -1John 3:5
"In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he lovved uus and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins." -1John 4:10
"To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood." -Rev. 1:5
"And they sand a new song, saying "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and
nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God and they shall reign on the earth." -Rev. 5:9,10
"And between the throne and the 4 living creatures I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and seveneyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth." -Rev.
5:6
"These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." -Rev. 7:14
"And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified." -Rev. 11:8
"And all who dwell on earth will worship [the beast], everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain." -Rev. 13:8
"He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which He is called is the Word of God." -Rev. 19:13