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³⁴他遂召集群眾和門徒來，對他們說：「誰若願意跟隨我，該棄絕自己，背著自己的十字架，跟隨我，

³⁴And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

³⁵因為誰若願意救自己的性命，必要喪失性命；但誰若為我和福音的原故，喪失自己的性命，必要救得性命。

³⁵For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it.

³⁶人縱然賺得了全世界而賠上自己的靈魂，為他有什麼益處？

³⁶For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

³⁷人還能拿什麼作為自己靈魂的代價？

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

³⁸誰若在這淫亂和罪惡的世代中，以我和我的話為恥，將來人子在他父的光榮中，同諸聖天使降來時，也要以他為恥。」

³⁸For he that shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation: the Son of man also will be ashamed of him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

¹耶穌又對他們說：「我實在告訴你們：站在這裡的人中，就有幾個在未嘗到死味以前，必要看見天主的國帶著威能降來。」

¹And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter and James and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves, and was transfigured before them.

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³⁹And he said to them: Amen I say to you, that there are some of them that stand here, who shall not taste death, till they see the kingdom of God coming in power.