It is fair to say that the cross is the most visible and enduring images of all religions. It is doubtful that any civilized person on any continent does not recognize the cross as the symbol associated with Jesus and Christianity. It is a common image found in art, music, books and preaching. Even for non-Christians, it has a reputation for supernatural power that can heal and save people from sin. It is at one time a symbol of both death and life.
Here are New Testament scriptures about the cross:
1 Corinthians 1:17-18 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void. 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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Matthew 10:38 “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
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Galatians 6:14 But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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Philippians 2:8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
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Ephesians 2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.
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Matthew 27:32 As they were coming out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they pressed into service to bear His cross.
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Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
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Luke 14:27 “Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
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Luke 9:23 And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
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1 Corinthians 12:8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
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John 19:17 They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.
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