CROSS WORD STUDY

1.     Matthew 10:38(Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23) “He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.”

2.     Matthew 16:24(Mark 10:21; Luke 14:27)“If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his  cross, and follow me.”

3.     Matthew 27:32(Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26) “They compelled Simon of Cyrene to bear Jesus’ cross.”

4.     Matthew 27:42(Mark 15:30, 32) “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 believer him.”

5.     John 19:17 “And Jesus bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of the skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: and there they crucified him…”

6.     John 19:19 “And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross.  And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

7.     John 19:25 “Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother…”

8.     John 19:31 “The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath Day, besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken down.”

9.     I Corinthians 1:17 “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.”

10. I Corinthians 1:18 “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”

11. Galatians 5:11 “And I brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution:?  Then is the offense of the cross ceased.”

12. Galatians 6:12 “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.”

13. Galatians 6:14 “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.”

14. Ephesians 2:16 “That he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:”

15. Philippians 2:8 “And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”

16. Philippians 3:18 “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:”

17. Colossians 1:20-22 “And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earthy, or things in heaven.  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovaeable in his sight.”

18. Colossians 2:14 “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over the in it.”

19. 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.”