 | Donald Senior - 1990 - 204 pagini
...followed by powerful teaching on discipleship as the way of the cross. "If any would come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever would save their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.... | |
 | James R. Beck - 1999 - 284 pagini
...you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things." Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny...themselves and take up their cross and follow me." (Mt 16:21-23) In this well-known passage, the self-denial teaching of Jesus consists of four major... | |
 | David G. Myers, Malcolm A. Jeeves, Nicholas Wolterstorff - 1987 - 260 pagini
...truth about the benefits of positive self-esteem and positive thinking. Jesus called us to self-denial: "If any want to become my followers, let them deny...themselves and take up their cross and follow me"; but he did not call us to self-rejection. Far from devaluing our individual lives, he proclaimed their... | |
 | 1987 - 268 pagini
...3< And Jesus called the multitude with the disciples, and said to them, "If any would come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For those who would save their life will lose it; and those who lose their life for my sake and... | |
 | Lowell Erdahl, Carol Erdahl - 1991 - 98 pagini
...happier than husbands and wives who seek only to get joy for themselves. Jesus' general principle that "those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it" (Luke 924) is also true in marriage. When we lose ourselves in the abandonment of selfgiving... | |
 | James H. Harris - 164 pagini
...is indeed a more powerful force than hate, and peace is a more noble goal than conflict. Jesus says, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23). Following him is the most ethical and morally right way to manage... | |
 | William Carl Placher - 1992 - 220 pagini
...you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things." Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny...those who lose their life for my sake will find it." (Vs. 21-25) The cross, whether Jesus' or the disciples' after him, is not the final word. Losing one's... | |
 | Stephen D. Moore - 1992 - 228 pagini
...his dyslexic disciples ("who do people say that 1 am? . . . who do you say that I am?"), announces: "If any want to become my followers, let them deny...lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of gospel, will save it" (8:27-29, 34-35). In Mark, the signature of the disciple... | |
 | Janice Capel Anderson, Stephen D. Moore - 1993 - 188 pagini
...dyslexic disciples ("who do people say that I am? . . . who do you say that I am?"), Jesus declares, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny...lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it" (8:34-35). In Mark, the signature of the disciple can... | |
 | James L. Bailey - 1992 - 224 pagini
...line reverses the order of the key words in the first line (AB/B' A'). Mark 8:35 provides an example: For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. This chiasm creates semantic tension between "saving... | |
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If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. 
