23 Bible Verses about Death To Self

I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions: and to be renewed in your mind, by living like men formed anew, after the image of God, in justice, sanctity, and truth.

nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ,

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

Then he said to the whole company, if any one will be my follower, let him renounce himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

verily, verily I say unto you, when a corn of wheat is thrown into the ground, there it lies a single grain unless it dies: but if it die, it becomes very fruitful.

Then he said to the whole company, if any one will be my follower, let him renounce himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me. for whoever would save his life, shall lose it: and he that would lose his life, out of love to me, shall save it.

in like manner consider your selves as dead to sin; but alive to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being. and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Since then Christ has with respect to his mortal nature died for us, arm yourselves with this reflection, that he, who is dead with respect to sensuality, has renounced sin; so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.

You are, therefore, brethren oblig'd to oppose your sensual passions; for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy.

in like manner consider your selves as dead to sin; but alive to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof. neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness.read more.
for then sin shall have no dominion over you: because you are not under the legal, but under the gospel dispensation.

he must advance,

teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world;

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

in like manner every one of you must count upon renouncing all that he has, otherwise he cannot be my disciple.

and he that does not take his cross, and so follow after me, is unworthy of me.

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:

but far be it from me that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is as contemptible to me, as I am to the world.

since then we died with Christ, we are persuaded that we shall also live with him:

considering this, that our vicious passions were crucified with him, that the body of sin being destroyed, we might not any longer be vassals to sin. for by its being dead, we are set free from sin.

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions: and to be renewed in your mind, by living like men formed anew,