Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said if anyone would come after me he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it but whoever loses his life for me and the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world yet lose his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words and and the adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in the in his father‘s glory with the holy angels. Mark 8:-