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12 Bible verses about Discipleship KJV

A disciple is a learner who follows. Jesus set the terms out loud and more than once — deny yourself, take up the cross, count the cost — and the Great Commission is not to make converts but to make disciples.

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Matthew 28:19-20 · KJV

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Luke 9:23 · KJV

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Luke 14:27 · KJV

And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Luke 14:33 · KJV

So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

John 8:31 · KJV

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

John 13:35 · KJV

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 15:8 · KJV

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

Matthew 4:19 · KJV

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

2 Timothy 2:2 · KJV

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

Matthew 16:24 · KJV

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Mark 8:34 · KJV

And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Colossians 2:6-7 · KJV

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

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