'Self' in the Bible
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If any one desires to follow me, let him renounce self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.
Then calling to Him the crowd and also His disciples, He said to them, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.
And He said to all, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross day by day, and so be my follower.
Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.
But *I* have prayed for *you* that your faith may not fail, and you, when at last you have come back to your true self, must strengthen your brethren."
See my hands and my feet--it is my very self. Feel me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see I have."
"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.
This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin;
For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.
For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;
with that new and better self which has been created to resemble God in the righteousness and holiness which come from the truth.
Do not speak falsehoods to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its doings,
and have clothed yourselves with the new self which is being remoulded into full knowledge so as to become like Him who created it.
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious,
I Paul write this with my own hand--I will pay you in full. (I say nothing of the fact that you owe me even your own self.)
The religious service which is pure and stainless in the sight of our God and Father is to visit fatherless children and widowed women in their time of trouble, and to keep one's own self unspotted from the world.
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