53 Bible Verses about Discipleship

Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.

And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught many people. 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 with signs following. Amen.

In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things to her.

He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: Why would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?

But when he had turned about, and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savorest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.

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

After these things, the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city, and place, whither he himself would come.

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

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

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

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

(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

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

When therefore he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this to them: and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken.

Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him, If ye continue in my word, ye are my disciples indeed;

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man is so 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 he said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the lake. And they lanched forth.

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

And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith.

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

But their eyes were held, that they should not know him.

Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,

Then this saying went abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not to him, He shall not die; but, if I will that he shall tarry till I come, what is that to thee?

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

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he essayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.

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

And whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

And when he had called to him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease.

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

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

Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

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

Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith to them, What seek ye? They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, being interpreted, Master) where dwellest thou?

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elijah did?

And he said to his disciples, The days will come, when ye will desire to see one of the days of the son of man, and ye shall 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 unclean spirits;

And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.

Simon Peter saith to them, I go a fishing. They say to him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a boat immediately; and that night they caught nothing.

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to hear as the learned.

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

And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out demons in thy name, and he followeth not us; and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.

And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.

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

And he was in the hinder part of the boat, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say to him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

Peter seeing him, saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?