15 Bible Verses about Renunciation
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The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has done this honor to his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go.
Then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.
I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.
Timothy, guard what has been intrusted to you. Keep away from the worldly, empty phrases and contradictions of what they falsely call knowledge,
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.
And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.
And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me.
Peter started to say to him, "Well, we have left all we had, and have followed you."
In just that way, no one of you who does not say goodbye to all he has can be a disciple of mine.
Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ
For the Son of Man himself has not come to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to free many others."
This is why the Father loves me, because I am giving my life, but giving it to take it back again.
but laid it aside to take on the nature of a slave and become like other men. When he had assumed human form, he still further humbled himself and carried his obedience so far as to die, and to die upon the cross.
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Discipleship » Conditions of » Renunciation
"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Leaving home and friends
Peter started to say to him, "Well, we have left all we had, and have followed you."
And they brought the boats to land and left everything and followed him.
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Paul's renunciation
Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Reward promised
And he said to them, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the Kingdom of God who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the coming age eternal life."
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » Leaving business
After this he went out, and he saw a tax-collector named Levi sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me!" And he left everything and got up and followed him.
Renunciation » Renunciations of all things for Christ » A condition of discipleship
In just that way, no one of you who does not say goodbye to all he has can be a disciple of mine.
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