47 Bible Verses about Commitment, to Jesus Christ

so he said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

so Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me and I will make you fish for men."

As Jesus passed along from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me"; and he rose and followed him.

As he passed along he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me," and he rose and followed him.

On going outside after this he noticed a taxgatherer called Levi sitting at the tax-office and said to him, "Follow me";

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me." When the young man heard that, he went sadly away, for he had great possessions.

Next day Jesus determined to leave for Galilee; there he met Philip and told him, "Follow me."

(he said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God); then he added, "Follow me."

May the God who inspires stedfastness and encouragement grant you such harmony with one another, after Christ Jesus,

By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ."

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me: he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine; whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;

Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.

Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

Whoever tries to secure his life will lose it, and whoever loses it will preserve it.

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

Jesus looked at him and loved him. "There is one thing you want," he said; "go and sell all you have; give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, take up the cross, and follow me."

When Jesus heard this he said to him, "You lack one thing more; sell all you have, distribute the money among the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? ??29 in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him, saying, 'This fellow started to build but he could not finish it.' Or what king sets out to fight against another king without first sitting down to deliberate whether with ten thousand men he can encounter the king who is attacking him with twenty thousand?read more.
If he cannot, when the other is still at a distance he will send an embassy to do homage to him. So with everyone of you who will not part with all his goods he cannot be a disciple of mine.

It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps.

He said to another man, "Follow me"; but he said, "Let me go and bury my father first of all."

Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home."

followed by a large crowd on account of the Signs which they had seen him perform on sick folk.

After that, many of his disciples drew back and would not associate with him any longer.

And they dropped their nets at once and followed him.

At once they dropped their nets and went after him.

and they left the boat and their father at once, and went after him.

he called them at once, and they left their father Zebedaeus in the boat with the crew and went to follow him.

he rose, left everything and followed him.

One of the two men who heard what John said and went after Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Peter.

Still, a number even of the authorities believed in him, though they would not confess it on account of the Pharisees, in case of being excommunicated;

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who belonged to the Jewish authorities; he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him."

He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."

Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

If you love me you will keep my commands,

Copy me, as I copy Christ.

'If any one has no love for the Lord, God's curse be on him! Maran atha!

Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself; instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

This is how we may be sure we know him, by obeying his commands.

and we get from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight. Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do; he who obeys his commands remains within him ??and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

They have not been defiled by intercourse with women ??they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb.