Matthew 10:38 He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

Ephesians 5:2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Philippians 2:5,8 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus . . . he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

Hebrews 12:3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

1 John 3:16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.