27 Bible Verses about Mortification

Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I sinned in betraying innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See thou to it. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and withdrew; and went away and hanged himself.

And calling the multitude to him with his disciples also, he said to them, Whoever chooseth to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever chooseth to save his life, will lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for the sake of me and of the glad tidings, will save it.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one chooseth to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever chooseth to save his life will lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake will find it.

And he said to all, If any one chooseth to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whoever chooseth to save his life, will lose it; and whoever loseth his life for my sake, he will save it.

Herein we know love, in that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are sure to die; but if by the Spirit ye make an end of the deeds of the body, ye will live.

Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

And if thy right eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand cause thee to offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, than that thy whole body should go away into hell.

And they who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts.

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Beloved, I exhort you, as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin; for he that hath died hath been set free from sin.

that as to your former way of life ye should put off the old man, who perisheth according to the lusts of deceit, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

I have been crucified with Christ, and no longer do I live, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Are ye ignorant, that all of us who were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?

So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, while becoming like him in his death,

If ye died with Christ to the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, such as,

True is the saying: for if we died with him, we shall also live with him;

but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one; thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have spent in the deep;read more.
by journeyings often; by perils of rivers, by perils of robbers, by perils from my countrymen, by perils from the heathen, by perils in the city, by perils in the wilderness, by perils in the sea, by perils among false brethren; by weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides the other troubles, there is that which presseth upon me daily, the anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is in danger of stumbling, and I do not burn? If I must boast, I will boast of the things which belong to my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I am not lying. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept guard over the city of the Damascenes, in order to apprehend me; and through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

Henceforth let no one trouble me; for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.

which things have indeed a show of wisdom in willworship and humiliation and severity to the body, not in any honor for the satisfying of the flesh.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workmen, beware of the concision. For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

If ye died with Christ to the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, such as, Handle not, Taste not, Touch not, (which all are to perish with the using,) after the commandments and teachings of men;

Now the Spirit saith expressly, that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, through the hypocrisy of speakers of lies, who bear a brand on their own conscience, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from food which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those who believe and know the truth.read more.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.