53 Bible Verses about Discipleship

Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

And there arose a reasoning among them, which of them was the greatest.

and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that even for a whole year they were gathered together with the church, and taught much people, and that the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and'so'shall ye be my disciples.

Mary Magdalene cometh and telleth the disciples, I have seen the Lord; and that he had said these things unto her.

He answered them, I told you even now, and ye did not hear; wherefore would ye hear it again? would ye also become his disciples?

But he turning about, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and saith, Get thee behind me, Satan; for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the'son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and preach in their cities.

If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he spake this; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples;

The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

Now it came to pass on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples; and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake: and they launched forth.

Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his disciples

This saying therefore went forth among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, that he should not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?

Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples,

And he said, Are ye also even yet without understanding?

And when he was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat.

Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

And he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease and all manner of sickness.

And they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are disciples of Moses.

And another of the disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

And Jesus called unto him his disciples, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat: and I would not send them away fasting, lest haply they faint on the way.

And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.

And Jesus turned, and beheld them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? And they said unto him, Rabbi (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), where abideth thou?

And when his disciples James and John saw this , they said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them?

And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

And he calleth unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the apostles with him.

Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also come with thee. They went forth, and entered into the boat; and that night they took nothing.

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

And he saith unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

John said unto him, Teacher, we saw one casting out demons in thy name; and we forbade him, because he followed not us.

And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord; but first suffer me to bid farewell to them that are at my house.

There was together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the'sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.

And he himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion: and they awake him, and say unto him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish?

Peter therefore seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?