30 Bible Verses about Renunciation
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And they will forsake Jehovah the God of their fathers bringing them out of the land of Egypt, and go after other gods from the gods of the peoples which are round about them, and they will worship to them and provoke Jehovah.
Breaking the transgressing and the sinning together, and they forsaking Jehovah shall be finished.
The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, God of our fathers, has honoured his child Jesus; whom ye have delivered up, and denied him before the face of Pilate, he having judged to loose.
For they turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them: they made for them a molten calf, and worship to it, and will sacrifice to it, and will say, These thy gods, Israel, which raised thee up out of the land of Egypt
Thus said all the assembly of Jehovah, What transgression this which ye transgressed against the God of Israel to turn back this day from after Jehovah, in your building to you an altar for your rebellion this day against Jehovah?
Because they forsook me, and they will burn incense to other gods to irritate me in all the work of their hands; and my wrath burnt upon this place and it shall not be quenched.
And thou, O Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing soul: for Jehovah searched all hearts, and he understands every formation of the thoughts: if thou shalt seek him he will be found to thee, and if thou wilt forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.
And it was when ye shalt say, For what did Jehovah our God all these things to us? and thou saidst to them, As ye forsook me, and ye will serve a strange god in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land not to you.
And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another.
Depart from evil and do good, and dwell forever.
And I shall send to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Turn ye back now each from his evil way, and make good your doings, and ye shall not go after other gods to serve them, and turn ye back to the land which I gave to you and to your fathers: and ye inclined not your ear and ye heard not to me.
For this, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn ye back, and turn away from your blocks; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Wherefore, O king, my counsel shall be pleasant to thee, and break off thy sins by justice, and thine iniquities in compassionating the poor; if it shall be a lengthening to thy peace.
But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.
O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:
And if my people which my name was called upon them shall be humbled and pray and seek my face, and turn back from their evil ways; and I will hear from the heavens and forgive to their sin, and I will heal their land.
He covering his transgression shall not prosper: but he confessing and forsaking, shall be compassionated.
And if the unjust one shall turn back from all his sins which he did, and he watched all my laws and did judgment and justice; living, he shall live; he shall not die.
And God will see their works that they turned back from their evil way, and God will lament for the evil which he spake to do to them: and he did it not
Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any wish to come after me, let him deny himself absolutely, and lift up his cross, and follow me.
And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wills to come after me, let him absolutely deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
And he said to all, If any one wish to come after me, let him deny himself, and lift up his cross daily and let him follow me.
And Peter began to say to him, Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee.
So then, every one of you, who renounces not all of his possessions, cannot be my disciple.
But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,
For also the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many.
Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, born in the likeness of men: And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross.
From Thematic Bible
Discipleship » Conditions of » Renunciation
If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Leaving home and friends
And Peter began to say to him, Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee.
And having brought down the ship upon the land, having let go all things, they followed him.
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Paul's renunciation
But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Reward promised
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, That there is none who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for sake of the kingdom of God, Who should not receive many fold in this time, and in life coming, eternal life.
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Leaving business
And after these, he went out, and saw a publican, by name Levi, sitting by the custom-house; and he said to him, Follow me. And having left all, having risen, he followed him.
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » A condition of discipleship
So then, every one of you, who renounces not all of his possessions, cannot be my disciple.
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