59 Bible Verses about Giving, Of Oneself
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We have come to know love by this: that {he} laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
And summoning the crowd together with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
And he said to [them] all, "If anyone wants to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross every day and follow me.
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life [as] a ransom for many."
No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.
For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."
who gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.
Think this in yourselves which [was] also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God something to be grasped, but emptied himself [by] taking the form of a slave, [by] becoming in the likeness of people. And being found in appearance like a man,read more.
he humbled himself [by] becoming obedient to the point of death, that is, death on a cross.
who gave himself for us, in order that he might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good deeds.
[Like] this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and {unwise} people? [Has] he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you.
Know that Yahweh, he [is] God; he made us and we are his. [We are] his people and the sheep of his pasture.
"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, because you have created all [things], and because of your will they existed and were created."
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.
And they were singing a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered, and bought [people] for God by your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation,
And indeed, who [am] I, and who [are] my people that we retain power to offer according to these [offerings] willingly? For everything [is] from you, and from your hand we have given to you.
But you must remember Yahweh your God, for he [is] the [one] giving you strength to acquire wealth in order to confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors {as it is today}.
nor is he served by human hands [as if he] needed anything, [because] he himself gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
For who concedes you [superiority]? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if indeed you received [it], why do you boast as [if you] did not receive [it]?
Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,
Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies [as] a living sacrifice, holy [and] pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.
and not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and [then] to us, by the will of God.
Now I urge you, brothers--you know about the household of Stephanas, that they are the first fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the ministry for the saints--
(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members [as] slaves to immorality and lawlessness, [leading] to lawlessness, so now present your members [as] slaves to righteousness, [leading] to sanctification.
So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.
"When long hair hangs loosely in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, bless Yahweh!
gold for the golden things and silver for the silver things, for all the work by the hand of skilled craftsmen. Now who will offer willingly, {consecrating himself} today to Yahweh?"
and at his side, Amasiah the son of Zicri, who had made a freewill offering to Yahweh, and with him [were] two hundred thousand mighty armed warriors.
Then I said, "Look, I come. In [the] scroll of [the] book it is written concerning me: 'I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law [is] {deep within me}.'"
Then I heard [the] voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "I [am] here! Send me!"
For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, how constantly I make mention of you,
Practice these [things]. Be [diligent] in these [things], in order that your progress may be evident to everyone.
In the [same] way, therefore, every [one] of you who does not renounce all his own possessions {cannot be} my disciple.
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple.
Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat {forever}, in order that I may not cause my brother to sin.
just as I also please all [people] in all [things], not seeking my own benefit, but the [benefit] of the many, in order that they may be saved.
But I will spend and be expended most gladly for your lives. If I love you much more, am I to be loved less?
{More than that}, even consider all [things] to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all [things], and consider [them] dung, in order that I may gain Christ
Nebuchadnezzar {responded}, saying, "Blessed be their God, [the God] of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who sent his angel and rescued his servants who trusted in him, and the command of the king they disobeyed, and they gave their bodies so that they [did] not serve and [did] not worship any god except their God.
But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.
Then Paul replied, "What are you doing weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus!"
And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives until death.
The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.
Then Peter answered [and] said to him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will there be for us?" And Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that in the renewal [of the world], when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me--you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields on account of my name will receive a hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life.
Peter began to say to him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you." Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields on account of me and on account of the gospel {who will not} receive a hundred times as much now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, together with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life.
And Peter said, "Behold, we have left {all that is ours} [and] followed you." And he said to them, "Truly I say to you that there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children on account of the kingdom of God, who will not receive many times more in this time and in the age to come, eternal life."
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me and of the gospel will save it.
He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me, and he [who] orders [his] way; I will show him the salvation of God."
Give thanks to Yahweh; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations!
and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which [are] not proper), but rather thanksgiving.
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your gentleness be made known to all people. The Lord [is] near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.read more.
And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
firmly rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding with thankfulness.
And the peace of Christ must rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
Therefore, [since we] are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be thankful, through which let us serve God acceptably, with awe and reverence.
Bible Theasaurus
- Oneself (12 instances)
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