Thematic Bible: Should be exercised in
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Preferring the profit of others
For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.
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Let not each one be always seeking his own, but rather his neighbor's good.
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Do not, for the sake of food, be tearing down God's work. All food indeed is ceremonially clean, but a man is in the wrong if his food proves a stumbling-block. The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.
Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Not seeking our own profit
is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing,
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Let not each one be always seeking his own, but rather his neighbor's good.
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Let each have an eye not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Putting off the old man which is corrupt
You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;
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Lie not one to another, but strip off the old self with its doings,
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Taking up the cross and following Christ
Then Jesus said to his disciples. "If any man wishes to come after me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.
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"and he who does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Mortifying sinful lusts
So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.
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"If your hand cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to be maimed and to enter into life than to have two hands and go away into hell, into the fire that cannot be put out.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Denying unGodliness and worldly lusts
And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
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Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Even lawful things
"All things are lawful," you say? But not all things are expedient; "all things are lawful"; but not all build up.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Preferring Christ to all earthly relations
Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father," "Follow me," Jesus said to him, "and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Being crucified unto the world
God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Crucifying the flesh
And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Controlling the appetite
Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Not pleasing ourselves
Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to seek our own pleasure. Let each one of us try to make his neighbor happy for his good, unto his upbuilding. For even Christ pleased not himself; but as it is written, The reproaches of those who were reproaching thee fell upon me.
Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Abstaining from fleshly lusts
I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » No longer living to lusts of men
so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Mortifying deeds of the body
for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Being crucified with Christ
For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Forsaking all
"Just so any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
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Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Assisting others
"If you have two shirts share with him who has none; and let him who has food do the same."
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Related Topics
- Christ's Disciples Will Suffer
- Crucifying Our Flesh
- Dead To Sin
- Death To Self
- Do Not Be Selfish
- Evil Desires
- Freedom, Abuse Of Christian
- Giving, Of Oneself
- Living Not For The Material
- Lust