54 Bible Verses about Self Denial

Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.

choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

But they answered, "We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, 'You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.

I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.

for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

And he said to all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.

He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.

After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, "Follow me." And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.

Jesus said to him, "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

Then Peter said in reply, "See, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?"

Peter began to say to him, "See, we have left everything and followed you."

And Peter said, "See, we have left our homes and followed you."

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

"But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.

training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.

But Boaz answered her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

But now, if you will forgive their sin--but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written."

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

He must increase, but I must decrease."