Matthew 10:38
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
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Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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σταυρός
staurós · stow-ros'
28 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
a stake or post (as set upright), i.e. (specially), a pole or cross (as an instrument of capital punishment); figuratively, exposure to death, i.e. self-denial; by implication, the atonement of Christ
Strong's KJV usage: :--cross.
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And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
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Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
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And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
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And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
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He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
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And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
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Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
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And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
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Save thyself, and come down from the cross.
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Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
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And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
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And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
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And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
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And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
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And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
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The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
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For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
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For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
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And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
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As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
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But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
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And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
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And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
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cross
CROSS, noun [G., Latin ]
1. A gibbet consisting of two pieces of timber placed across each other, either in form of a T or of an X. That on which our Savior suffered, is represented on coins and other monuments, to have been of the former kind.
2. The ensign of the Christian religion; and hence figuratively, the religion itself.
3. A monument with a cross upon it to excite devotion, such as were anciently set in market places.
4. Any thing in the form of a cross or gibbet.
5. A line drawn through another.
6. Any thing that thwarts, obstructs, or perplexes; hindrance; vexation; misfortune; opposition; trial of patience.
Heaven prepares good men with crosses.
7. Money or coin stamped with the figure of a cross
8. The right side or face of a coin, stamped with a cross
9. The mark of a cross instead of a signature, on a deed, formerly impressed by those who could not write.
10. Church lands in Ireland.
11. In theology, the suffering of Christ by crucifixion.
That he might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross Ephesians 2:16.
12. The doctrine of Christs sufferings and of the atonement, or of salvation by Christ.
The preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness. 1 Corinthians 1:17. Galatians 5:11.
To take up the cross is to submit to troubles and afflictions from love to Christ.
13. In mining, two nicks cut in the surface of the earth, thus +.
CROSS and pile, a play with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up, which bears the cross or the other which is called pile or reverse.
CROSS, adjective
1. Transverse; oblique; passing from side to side; falling athwart; as a cross beam.
The cross refraction of a second prism.
2. Adverse; opposite; obstructing; sometimes with to; as an event cross to our inclinations.
3. Perverse; untractable; as the cross circumstances of a mans temper.
4. Peevish; fretful; ill-humored; applied to persons or things; as a cross woman or husband; a cross answer.
5. Contrary; contradictory; perplexing.
Contradictions that seem to lie cross and uncouth.
6. Adverse; unfortunate.
Behold the cross and unlucky issue of my design.
7. Interchanged; as a cross marriage, when a brother and sister intermarry with two persons who have the same relation to each other.
8. Noting what belongs to an adverse party; as a cross interrogatory.
CROSS, preposition Athwart; transversely; over; from side to side; so as to intersect.
This is admissible in poetry, as an abbreviation of across.
CROSS, verb transitive
1. To draw or run a line, or lay a body across another; as, to cross a word in writing; to cross the arms.
2. To erase; to cancel; as, to cross an account.
3. To make the sign of the cross as catholics in devotion.
4. To pass from side to side; to pass or move over; as, to cross a road; to cross a river, or the ocean. I crossed the English channel, from Dieppe to Brighton, in a steam-boat, Sept. 18, 1824.
5. To thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to embarrass; as, to cross a purpose or design.
6. To counteract; to clash or interfere with; to be inconsistent with; as, natural appetites may cross our principles.
7. To counteract or contravene; to hinder by authority; to stop. [See No. 5.]
8. To contradict.
9. To debar or preclude.
To cross the breed of an animal, is to produce young from different varieties of the species.
CROSS, verb intransitive
1. To lie or be athwart.
2. To move or pass laterally, or from one side towards the other, or from place to place, either at right angles or obliquely; as, to cross from Nantucket to New Bedford.
3. To be inconsistent; as, mens actions d not always cross with reason.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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