47 Bible Verses about Commitment, to Jesus Christ

And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him.

And when he went by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and he said to him, Come with me. And he got up, and went with him.

And after these things he went out, and saw Levi, a tax-farmer, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and said to him, Come after me.

Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me. But hearing these words the young man went away sorrowing: for he had much property.

The day after this, Jesus had a desire to go into Galilee. He came across Philip and said to him, Come and be my disciple.

Now this he said, pointing out the sort of death by which he would give God glory. And after saying this, he said to him, Come after me.

Now may the God who gives comfort and strength in waiting make you of the same mind with one another in harmony with Christ Jesus:

That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's.

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me. And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple. Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.

And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.

And he said to them all, If any man has a desire to come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross every day, and come after me.

He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever. If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

But Jesus said to him, Come after me; and let the dead take care of their dead.

He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.

If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.

Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me.

And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.

And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete? For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him, And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.read more.
Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace. And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.

This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:

And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.

And another man said, I will come with you, Lord, but first let me say a last good-day to those who are at my house.

And a great number of people went after him because they saw the signs which he did on those who were ill.

Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

And straight away they let go the nets and went after him.

And they went straight from their nets, and came after him.

And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him.

And he said, Come after me: and they went away from their father Zebedee, who was in the boat with the servants, and came after him.

And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two men who, hearing what John said, went after Jesus.

However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:

Now there was among the Pharisees a man named Nicodemus, who was one of the rulers of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts;

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.

If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).

Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ; Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes. And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us. He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.