15 Bible Verses about Renunciation

The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Child Jesus, Whom ye, indeed, delivered up, and denied before Pilate's face, when he gave judgment to release Him;

And then will many be caused to stumble, and will deliver up one another, and hate one another;

if we endure, we shall also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;

but we renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, not handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

O Timothy, guard the deposit; turning away from the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge;

Then said Jesus to His disciples, "If any one wishes to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me;

And, calling the multitude to Him with His disciples, He said to them, "If any one wishes to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

And He said to all, "If any one wishes to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

Peter began to say to Him, "Behold, we left all, and followed Thee."

And, having forsaken all, rising up, he followed Him.

"So, therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all his own goods, cannot be My disciple.

Nay, more, I even account all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I suffered the loss of all things, and account them refuse, that I may gain Christ.

for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his soul a ransom for many."

On this account My Father loveth Me, because I lay down My soul, that I may take it again.

but emptied Himself, taking a slave's form, coming to be in the likeness of men; and, being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.