2 And Jesus said, Behold, you come to see, but that means naught. If you would have the benedictions of the Christ, take up your cross and follow me.
3 If you would give your life for selfish self, then you will lose your life.
4 If you will give your life in service of your fellow men, then you will save your life.
5 This life is but a span, a bauble of today. There is a life that passes not.
6 Where is your profit if you gain the world and lose your soul? What would you take in payment for your soul?
7 If you would find the spirit life, the life of man in God, then you must walk a narrow way and enter through a narrow gate.
8 The way is Christ, the gate is Christ, and you must come up by the way of Christ. No man comes unto God but by the Christ.
9 The kingdom of the Christ will come; yea, some of you who hear me now will not pass through the gates of death until you see the kingdom come in power.
10 For seven days the master and the twelve remained in Cæsarea-Philippi.
11 Then Jesus, taking Peter, James and John, went forth unto a mountain top to pray.