Mat 5:29-30, 7:13-14, 16:24, Mar 9:43-48, Luk 13:24, 14:27, 33, Rom 15:1-3 | ESV | STEP | If your right eye causes you to sin , tear it out and throw it away . For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell .

29 ^aIf your right eye ^bcauses you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into ^chell. 30 ^dAnd if your right hand ^ecauses you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into ^fhell.

Matthew 7:13-14

13 ^g“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy ^{▼▼Some manuscripts For the way is wide and easy} that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and ⁱthe way is hard that leads to life, and ^jthose who find it are few.

Matthew 16:24

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus

24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him ^kdeny himself and ^ltake up his cross and follow me.

Mark 9:43-48

43 ^mAnd if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to ⁿhell, ^{▼▼Greek Gehenna; also verse 47} to ^pthe unquenchable fire. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add verses 44 and 46 (which are identical with verse 48)} 45 ^rAnd if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into ^shell. 47 ^tAnd if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into ^uhell, 48 ‘where ^vtheir worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’

Luke 13:24

24 ^w“Strive ^xto enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Luke 14:27

27 ^yWhoever does not ^zbear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

Luke 14:33

33 ^aaSo therefore, any one of you who ^abdoes not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Romans 15:1-3

The Example of Christ

1 ^acWe who are strong ^adhave an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 ^aeLet each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3 For ^afChrist did not please himself, but as it is written, ^ag“The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”