52 Bible Verses about Discipleship

Go, and make all nations my disciples, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

And there arose a reasoning among them, which of them was greatest.

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that for a whole year they came together in the church, and taught a great multitude; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

and they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs which followed it.]

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye will become my disciples.

Mary the Magdalene cometh, bringing word to the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

He answered them, I have already told you, and ye did not hear; why would ye hear it again? Are ye also inclined to become his disciples?

But he turning about and looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter, and saith, Get thee behind me, Satan! for thy thoughts are not on the things of God, but on those of men.

By this will all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one for another.

After these things, the Lord appointed also seventy others, and sent them two and two before him into every city and place where he himself was about to come.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one chooseth to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of his charge to his twelve disciples, that he departed thence, to teach and to preach in their cities.

If any one cometh to me, and hateth not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

(though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples,)

And the disciples came and said to him, Why dost thou speak to them in parables?

When therefore he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed in him, If ye continue in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

The disciples say to him, If such be the case of a man with his wife, it is not good to marry.

Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a boat with his disciples, and said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the lake; and they put off.

From this time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

And the apostles said to the Lord, Give us more faith.

saying, Say, His disciples came by night, and stole him away, while we slept.

But their eyes were restrained from knowing him.

And John, having heard in the prison of the works of Christ, sent by his disciples,

This report therefore went abroad among the brethren, that this disciple was not to die. And yet Jesus did not say to him, He will not die; but, If it be my will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee?

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes, and to his disciples,

And he said, Are ye too still without discernment?

And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join himself to the disciples; and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of grain, and to eat.

Whoever doth not bear his own cross and follow me, cannot be my disciple.

And he called to him his twelve disciples, and gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every sickness and every disease.

They reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are disciples of Moses.

And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

And Jesus having called his disciples to him, said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have remained with me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest they faint on the road.

And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.

Jesus turning and seeing them following, saith to them, What seek ye? And they said to him, Rabbi, (that is to say, when interpreted, Teacher,) where dost thou dwell?

And the disciples James and John, on seeing it, said, Lord, wilt thou have us bid fire come down from heaven, and consume them?

And he said to the disciples, The days will come, when ye will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and will not see it.

And he calleth to him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over the unclean spirits;

And when the hour had come, he placed himself at table, and the apostles with him.

Simon Peter saith to them, I am going a fishing. They say to him, We also will go with thee. They set out and went into the boat, and on that night caught nothing.

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

John said to him, Teacher, we saw one casting out demons in thy name who followeth not us; and we forbade him, because he did not follow us.

And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to those who are in my house.

There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.

And he was in the stern, asleep on the pillow; and they awake him, and say to him, Teacher, carest thou not that we are perishing?

Peter, seeing him, saith to Jesus, Lord, and how will it be with him?