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What does the Bible say about cross?

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The Bible teaches that the cross is the saving work of Christ, where God’s love and justice meet as Jesus bore the sin of His people and secured their reconciliation with God. Though the message of the cross is foolishness to the world, it is God’s power to those being saved (1 Corinthians 1:18). At the cross, Christ canceled the debt against us (Colossians 2:14) and demonstrated God’s love for sinners (Romans 5:8). Believers are united to the crucified Christ by faith (Galatians 2:20) and are called to deny themselves and follow Him faithfully (Mark 8:34). Looking to Jesus, who endured the cross for our salvation, they find forgiveness, new life, and enduring hope (Hebrews 12:2).

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  • 1 Corinthians 1:18

    For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

  • Mark 8:34

    He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

  • John 3:16

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  • Matthew 10:38

    He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me.

  • Galatians 2:20

    I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

  • Hebrews 12:2

    looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

  • Romans 5:8

    But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • Luke 14:27

    Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.

  • Colossians 2:14

    wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

  • 1 Peter 2:24

    who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

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