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Mark 8:34-35

Mark 8:34-35 (ESV)
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

2 Peter 3:9

2 Peter 3:9 (ESV)
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

2 Peter 3:11

2 Peter 3:11 (ESV)
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,