53 Bible Verses about Discipleship

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

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

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

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

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye 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 ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?

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

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

After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither 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 thence 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 brethren, 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 speakest thou 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 which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

His disciples say 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 unto 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 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 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 thee?

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

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed 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 corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.

And whosoever doth 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, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer 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 fasting, lest they faint in the way.

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

Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?

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

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

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

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

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

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

And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.

And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which 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 hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

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