1 THESSALONIANS 5.16-18
always rejoice; continually pray; give thanks in everything, for this [is] the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.
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1 CORINTHIANS 1.30-31
but out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption, that, according as it has been written: “He who is glorying—let him glory in the LORD.”
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MATTHEW 16.24-25
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wills to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me, for whoever may will to save his life will lose it, and whoever may lose his life for My sake will find it;
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LUKE 14.28
For who of you, willing to build a tower, does not first, having sat down, count the expense, whether he has the things for completing?