15 Bible Verses about Renunciation
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The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,
And many will be repelled then, they will betray one another and hate one another.
if we endure, then we shall reign with him, if we disown him, then he shall disown us,
I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.
O Timotheus, keep the securities of the faith intact: avoid the profane jargon and contradictions of what is falsely called 'Knowledge.'
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;
Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;
He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;
Peter began, "Well, we have left our all and followed you."
So with everyone of you who will not part with all his goods he cannot be a disciple of mine.
indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ
for the Son of man himself has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.
From Thematic Bible
Discipleship » Conditions of » Renunciation
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Leaving home and friends
Peter began, "Well, we have left our all and followed you."
Then they brought the boats to land, and leaving all they followed him.
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Paul's renunciation
indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Reward promised
He said to them, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the Realm of God, who does not receive ever so much more in this present world, and in the world to come life eternal."
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Leaving business
On going outside after this he noticed a taxgatherer called Levi sitting at the tax-office and said to him, "Follow me"; he rose, left everything and followed him.
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » A condition of discipleship
So with everyone of you who will not part with all his goods he cannot be a disciple of mine.
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