44 Bible Verses about Self Sacrifice

For whoever will save his life, shall lose it; but whoever will lose his life for my sake, shall save it.

For you sympathized with me in my bonds, and endured joyfully the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

By faith Moses, when he became a man, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer evil with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach on account of the Christ as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he earnestly looked to the reward.read more.
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king: for he patiently endured, as seeing him that is invisible.

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

And Jesus, looking on him, loved him, and said to him: One thing you lack; go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and fol low me.

When Jesus heard this, he said to him: One thing you yet lack; sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Sell what you have, and be charitable. Make for yourselves purses that do not become old, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where no thief comes near, and no moth corrupts.

Then Peter said: Behold, we have left all and followed thee. And he said to them: Verily I say to you, There is no one that has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who shall not receive manifold more in this time, and in the age to come, eternal life.

Then Peter answered and said to him: Behold, we have left all and followed thee; what, then, shall we have? Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you, That, in the restoration, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you also who have followed me shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit eternal life. But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

And Peter began to say to him: Behold, we have left all and followed thee. And Jesus answering, said: Verily I say to you, There is no one that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, who shall not receive a hundred-fold, now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.

And all that believed were together, and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, as each had need.

And the multitude of believers were of one heart and of one soul; and no one said that any part of his possessions was his own; but they had all things in common. And with great power did the apostles bear testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all. Nor, indeed, was there any needy person among them; for as many as were owners of lands or houses, sold them, and brought the prices of what had been sold,read more.
and laid them down at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to every one as he had need. And Joses, who, by the apostles, was surnamed Barnabas, (which name, when translated, is, Son of consolation,) a Levite, by birth a Cyprian, having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

We make known to you, brethren, God's gracious gift, which has been given in the churches of Macedonia; that under an afflicting trial, their overflowing joy, and their deep poverty, abounded to the riches of their liberality; for I testify that according to their power, and beyond their power, they gave voluntarily,read more.
beseeching us, with much entreaty, that they might give, and take part in the ministering to the saints; and they did this, not only as we had hoped, but they gave them selves first to the Lord, and then to us, through the will of God;

So, then, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has, can not be my disciple.

He that loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me:

If any one comes to me, and hates not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his own life also, he can not be my disciple.

And after these tilings, he went out and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the custom-house; and he said to him: Follow me. And leaving all, he arose and followed him.

Yes, verily, I also count all things to be loss, for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them to be refuse, that I may gain Christ,

Verily, verily I say to you, unless a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains alone; but if it die, it produces much fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to eternal life.

and whoever does not take his cross and fol low after me, is not worthy of me.

And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, can not be my disciple.

Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any one determines to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever will save his life, shall lose it. But whoever will lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them: Whoever determines to follow after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever will save his life, shall lose it; but whoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel s, shall save it.

And he said to them all: If any one determines to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and fol low me. For whoever will save his life, shall lose it; but whoever will lose his life for my sake, shall save it.

Whoever will seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever will lose his life, shall save it.

By this we know the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. Whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.

always bearing about in our body the violent death of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body. For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

For, though I am free from all men, yet have I made my self a servant to all, that I may gain the more. And to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to those who are under law, as under law, (not being myself under law,) that I might gain those who are under law; to those who are without law, as without law, (not being myself without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without law:read more.
to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may share its benefits with you.

And why are we in danger every hour? I protest, by the joy which I have over you in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. From the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one; three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three- times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I spent in the deep.read more.
In journeying s often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and in toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I am not incensed?

I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and children will rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all men on my account: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and children will rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death; and you will be hated by all on my account. But he that endures to the end shall be saved.

But you will be delivered up by parents and brothers and relatives and friends; and some of you they will put to death; and you will be hated by all for my name's sake.

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

except that in every city the Holy Spirit testifies to me, saying, That bonds and afflictions await me. But I esteem this a matter of no importance, nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear full testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

And he went forward a little, and fell on his face in prayer, saying: My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not as I will, but as thou willest.

And he went forward a little, and fell upon the ground, and prayed, that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him; and he said: Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee; let this cup pass from me: but not what I will, but what thou wiliest.

saying: Father, if thou art willing that this cup should pass from me yet, not my will, but thine be done.

But if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

And they stoned Stephen while he was calling on the Lord, and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice: Lord, let not this sin stand against them. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. And Saul was well pleased with his death.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not think it an act of robbery to be equal with God; but he divested himself by taking the form of a servant, and being made in the likeness of men:read more.
and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient even to death, the death, indeed, of the cross.

others had trial of mockings and scourgings, bonds also, and imprisonments. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in. sheep-skins, in goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, oppressed with evils, (of whom the world was not worthy,) wandering in deserts, and in mountains, and in caverns, and in dens of the earth.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and the power of judging was given to them; and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God; and of those who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, and had not received his mark on their forehead, nor on their hand: and they lived and reigned with Christ a thou sand years.