47 Bible Verses about Self Denial

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.

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

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season;

For he shall be great before the Lord; and he shall not drink wine and strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost even from the womb of his mother.

For John the Baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and you say, He has a demon.

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.

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.

Those things which were gained to me, these I counted loss for the sake of Christ.

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.

let thy kingdom come: let thy will be done, as in heaven, even so upon earth:

And Jesus passing along from thence, saw a man sitting at the toll, called Matthew; and He says to him, Follow me. And having arisen up, he followed Him.

And He came out again by the sea; and the whole multitude came to Him, and He was teaching them. And passing along, he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus sitting at the toll, and says to him, Follow me. And rising up, he followed Him.

And after these things He came out, and saw a publican, by name Levi, sitting at the toll, and He said to him, Follow me. And having left all things, rising up, he followed Him.

And if thy hand may offend thee, cut it off: it is good for thee to go into life maimed, rather than having two hands to go away into hell, into the fire that can not be quenched.

Jesus said to him, If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Then Peter responding said to Him, Behold, we have left all things, and followed Thee; what then shall be to us?

Peter began to say to Him, Behold, we have left all things, and followed thee.

And Peter said, Behold, we have left all things, and followed thee.

And every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, on account of my name, shall receive a hundred-fold, and inherit eternal life.

Jesus said, Truly I say unto you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, on account of me and the gospel, except he may receive a hundredfold now in this time, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the coming age eternal life.

And drawing up their ships to the land, having left all things, they followed Him.

Thus then every one of you who does not consecrate all his possessions, is not able to be my disciple.

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be burdened with luxury, and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day may come on you unanticipated.

But I consider my life worthy of no consideration to myself, so as to finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

It could not be so. How shall we, who are dead unto sin, live any longer in it?

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.

I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service:

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the lust of the flesh.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable: all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air: but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.

and not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us through the will of God:

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.

And I say, Walk about in the Spirit, and do not perfect the lust of carnality.

For ye are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God:

Therefore if any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, having been sanctified, well pleasing to the Lord, having been prepared unto every good work.

teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we must live prudently and righteously and holily in this present age; looking for the blessed hope even the appearing of the glory of our great God and our Saviour Christ Jesus;

Therefore draw nigh unto God; and resist the devil, and he will flee from you:

that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

looking not each after your own interests, but each after that of others.

it is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles.

But we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

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

No one operating as a soldier is entangled with the affairs of life; in order that he may please his commander.

Let no one seek his own, but that of another.

It behooveth Him to increase, and me to decrease.