Luke 9:21-25

But He warned them and instructed them not to tell this to anyone,

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised on the third day.”

And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, this is the one who will save it.

For what good does it do a person if he gains the whole world, but loses or forfeits himself?