34 Then summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said. "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

35 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever, for my sake and the gospels, loses his life will save it.

36 For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life?

37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

38 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this unfaithful and wicked generation, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."