ACROSS
3Luke 9:23 says, And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him ____ himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.  Hard to find MANY that do.  Camp Steven's is in the "FEW" that do club.
6That which is of this world, is temporary and is born of the flesh; and that which is born a second time, to prepare for the WORLD to come, is THIS.  I constantly and unconsciously give thanks that I am in this small group
72 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are DEAD, GONE ______ away; behold, all things are become new.
11Nicodemus represents today's educated elite posing as pastors and priests and said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's (DANGEROUS TERRITORY), and be born?
13True freedom and peace comes by depending on, trusting in, surrendering to and our this to God's word
15Matthew 3:4 tells us this guy had his raiment, that is his fashion style of clothing, was camel's hair
16“Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of women, there has not risen a greater than, Pick one: John the Methodist, John the Lutheran, John the Catholic or John the
18Philippians 3:20 is clear as glass to a few,  But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,  But many choose remain behind a dark wall of THIS
DOWN
11 Samuel 15:22 tells us things many seldom hear.  Like the LORD has great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD, but, Behold, to DO THIS is better than sacrifice!
2Jeremiah 17:9 reminds us, The one you were born with the first time, is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
4John 3:7 Jesus (God in the flesh) said "Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye (SHOULD-WOULD-COULD, THINK ABOUT, CONSIDER or HOPE to be, NO! he said you)  ____ be born again"
5Ezekiel 36:26 goes with 2 Corinthians 5:17 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.  The author of this Berean style 21st century Word puzzle is not only a new creature, but a whole new
8John 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be THIS again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
9John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.  Here it is made as plain an unobtrusive and simple that there are no
10Matthew 3:4 tells us things we do not want to hear.  The greatest man ever to have been born of a woman ate these bugs and sweetened the taste with wild honey
12Ezekiel 36:27 goes on, And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and not just post memes about them, and talk about them, but __ them.
14This is like an elevator.  When you step into it, it takes you up or down
17"The right of citizenship under the Roman government was granted "by the emperor to individuals, and sometimes to provinces, as a" "favour or as a recompense for services rendered to the state, or" "for a sum of what today is FIAT CURRENCY, it is not gold nor silver therefore cannot be THIS