15 Bible Verses about Renunciation

the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and renounced in opposition to Pilate, who was determined to let him go.

then shall many relapse, and shall pursue one another with mutual treachery and hatred.

if we suffer, we shall also reign: if we renounce him,

renouncing all secret dishonesty, and void of all artifice, I deliver the word of God unadulterated, and recommend my self by urging the truth home to every man's conscience, as in the presence of God.

O Timothy, keep what is deposited in your care, avoiding the prophane empty declamations and objections of a spurious science, which some have profess'd,

Then addressing himself to his disciples, if any man, said he, would follow me, let him renounce himself, take up his cross, and so follow me.

Then addressing himself to the people, and his disciples, he said, he that desires to be under my conduct, let him renounce himself, and follow me.

Then he said to the whole company, if any one will be my follower, let him renounce himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Then Peter thus address'd himself to Jesus, you see we have left every thing to follow you.

immediately he rose up, left all his affairs, and became his disciple.

in like manner every one of you must count upon renouncing all that he has, otherwise he cannot be my disciple.

nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ,

for the son of man himself is not come to receive the services of men, but to do them service, and to lay down his life a ransom for many.

therefore doth my father love me, because I lay down my life, but I shall reassume it.

by assuming the form of a servant: being made in the likeness of men, and his whole exterior showing nothing more than a meer man, he abased himself, and carried his submission so far as to die, even the death of the cross.