15 Bible Verses about Renunciation

"The God of Abram, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go;

And then many will stumble and fall, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.

I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

O, Timothy, guard the treasure which is committed to you. Shun the profane babblings and contradictions of the falsely called "knowledge"

Then Jesus said to his disciples. "If any man wishes to come after me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.

Then summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said: "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

And he said to all. "If any man wills to follow me, Let him renounce self and take up his cross daily and follow me.

"But we," Peter began to say, "we have left our all and have followed you."

He rose, left everything, and followed him.

"Just so any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

In very truth I count all things but loss compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and esteem them but refuse that I may gain Christ,

and justly, for even the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life, a ransom for many."

"The Father loves me for this, because I am laying down my life that I may take it again.

but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men. More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross.