15 Bible Verses about Attitudes Of 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.

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.

always bearing about the dying of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be made manifest in our bodies. For we while living are always being delivered up to death for the sake of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So that death works in us, but life in you.

in everything being troubled, but not in difficulties incorrigible; being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss; being persecuted, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;

but in everything commending ourselves, as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulations, in straits, in difficulties, in stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labors, in vigils, in fastings; by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,read more.
by the word of truth, by the power of God; through the arms of righteousness right and left, through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true; as being unknown, and perfectly known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowing, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

Are they Hebrews? I am also. Are they Israelites? I am also. Are they the seed of Abraham? I am also. Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one,read more.
thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a day and a night I spent in the deep. Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. Besides all these, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

But if indeed I am poured out for a sacrifice and an offering for your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice along with you all; but you also rejoice in this same thing, and rejoice along with me.

For what glory is there, if, committing sin and being buffeted, you endure it? But if, doing good and suffering you endure it, this is grace with God. For unto this you have been called: because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you may follow in his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth,read more.
who, being reviled, reviled not again; suffering, he threatened not, but gave up to the one judging righteously: who himself has borne our sins in his own body on the wood, in order that we, being made free from sins, may live unto righteousness: by whose stripe you are healed.

And He began to teach them, that it behooves the Son of man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise. And He was boldly speaking the word. And Peter taking Him to him began to rebuke Him. And He turning and seeing His disciples rebuked Peter, and says, Get behind me, adversary: because thou art not thinking the things of God, but those of men.read more.
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.

But those belonging to Christ Jesus have crucified carnality with the passions and lusts.

that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception; and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and to put on the new man, who has been created in harmony with God in the righteousness and holiness of the truth.

Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; through which the wrath of God comes. In which you indeed at one time did walk about, when you lived in them:read more.
but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths: lie not to one another, having laid aside the old man with his habits, and having put on the new man, who is renewed into perfect knowledge according to the image of him who created him:

And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that the hour has come when He must depart out of this world to His Father, having loved His own who were in the world, with divine love, He loved them perfectly. And the supper being on hand, the devil already having entered into the heart, that Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, should betray Him, knowing that the Father has given all things into His hands, and He came out from God, and is going away to God,read more.
He rises from the supper, and lays aside His garments, and taking a towel, girded Himself; then He pours water into a bowl, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. Then He comes to Simon Peter; he says to Him; Lord, do you wash my feet? Jesus responded and said to him, What I do you know not now; but shall understand hereafter. Peter says to Him, You may never wash my feet. Jesus responded to him, If I wash thee not, thou hast not part with me. And Simon Peter says to Him, Lord, not only my feet, but my hands and my head. Jesus says to Him, He that is bathed hath no need to wash his hands, but is altogether clean: and you are clean, but not all. For He knew the one betraying Him. On this account He said, You are not all clean. Then when He washed their feet, and took His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Master and Lord, and you speak beautifully; for I am. If then I, your Lord and Master, washed your feet, you ought also to wash the feet of one another. For I have given unto you an example, that you may also do as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; nor the apostle greater than him that sent him. If you know these things, happy are ye if you may do them.

And having charged them, He commanded them to tell it to no one. Saying, That it behooved the Son of man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be killed, and to rise the third day.