27 Bible Verses about Mortification

Then Judas, the one having betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned, being seized with remorse, returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I sinned betraying the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See thou to it. And throwing down the money in the temple, he departed; and having gone away hung himself.

And calling the multitude to Him with His disciples, He said to them, Whosoever wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever may wish to save his soul shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his soul for my sake and that of the gospel shall save it.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, If any one wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever may wish to save his soul shall lose it: and whosoever may lose his soul for my sake shall find it.

And He spoke to all, If any one wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever may wish to save his soul shall lose it; and whosoever may lose his soul for my sake, he shall save it.

In this we know the divine love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live.

Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not that thy whole body may go away into hell. OMITTED TEXT

But those belonging to Christ Jesus have crucified carnality with the passions and lusts.

But it would be impossible for me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world:

Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;

knowing this, that our old man is crucified along with him, in order that the body of sin may be destroyed, that we may no longer serve sin; for the one having died has been made free from sin.

that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception; and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

I am crucified along with Christ; and I live no longer, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Whether do you not know, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?

So, my brethren, ye are dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, to him who is risen from the dead, in order that we may bring forth fruit unto God.

For we while living are always being delivered up to death for the sake of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So that death works in us, but life in you.

to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

If along with Christ you are dead from the elements of the world, why are you dogmatized as living in the world,

It is a faithful saying: For if we die along with him, we will also live with him:

but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a day and a night I spent in the deep.read more.
Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. Besides all these, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I do not burn? But if it behooves me to glory, I will glory in those things appertaining to my infirmities. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one being blessed forever, knows that I lie not. In Damascus Areta the governor of the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to arrest me: and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

Finally let no one give me troubles: for I bear in my own body the marks of Jesus.

Which indeed are having a word of wisdom in will worship, and humiliation, and austerity of the body; not in any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Beware of dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the counterfeit circumcision. For we are the circumcision, who serve the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, also having no confidence in the flesh:

If along with Christ you are dead from the elements of the world, why are you dogmatized as living in the world, Touch not, taste not, handle not, those things which are all unto destruction by use according to the commandments and teachings of the people?

But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been cauterized as to their own conscience, forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.read more.
Because every creature of God is good, and nothing rejected, being received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.