53 Bible Verses about Discipleship

Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:

Then there arose a reasoning among them, as to which of them should be greatest.

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

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

In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.

He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear: why would you hear it again? will you also be his disciples?

But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get you behind me, Satan: for you consider not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

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

After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before his face into every city and place, where he himself would come.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will 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 made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why do you speak unto them in parables?

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

Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;

His disciples said unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over to the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.

From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

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

Saying, Say this, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

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

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

Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to you?

Then spoke Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

And Jesus said, Are you also yet without understanding?

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

At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grain field; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of grain, and to eat.

And whosoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

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

Then they reviled him, and said, You are his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

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

Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away without food, lest they faint in the way.

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

Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said unto them, What seek you? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher,) where do you dwell?

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elijah did?

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

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

And when the hour came, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.

Simon Peter said unto them, I am going fishing. They said unto him, We also will go with you. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as the learned.

And he said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

And John answered him, saying, Teacher, we saw one casting out demons in your name, and he followed not us: and we forbade him, because he followed not us.

And another also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, who are at home at my house.

There were 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 was in the rear of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awoke him, and said unto him, Teacher, care you not that we perish?

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