54 Bible Verses about Self Denial

Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any wish to come after me, let him deny himself absolutely, and lift up his cross, and follow me.

Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;

Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself.

Having chosen rather to be treated ill with the people of God, than to have the enjoyment of sin for a time;

And they will say, We shall not drink wine: for Jonadab, son of Rechab our father, commanded to us, saying, Ye shall not drink wine, ye and your sons even to forever.

Bread of desires I ate not, and flesh and wine came not into my mouth, and anointing, I did not anoint myself even to the filling up of three weeks of days.

For he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and fermented liquor he should not drink; and with the Holy Spirit shall he be filled, even from his mother's womb.

For John the Immerser came, neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and ye say, He has a demon.

And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wills to come after me, let him absolutely deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

And he said to all, If any one wish to come after me, let him deny himself, and lift up his cross daily and let him follow me.

And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus.

But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ.

And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members be destroyed, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

Let thy kingdom come. Let thy will be as in heaven also upon the earth.

And Jesus, passing away from thence, saw a man sitting by the custom-house, being called Matthew, and he says to him, Follow me; and having risen he followed him.

And he went out again by the sea; and all the crowd came to him, and he taught them. And passing by, he saw Levi, him of Alpheus, sitting by the customhouse, and he says to him, Follow me. And having risen, he followed him.

And after these, he went out, and saw a publican, by name Levi, sitting by the custom-house; and he said to him, Follow me. And having left all, having risen, he followed him.

And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is good for thee rather to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go away into hell, into inextinguishable fire:

Jesus said to him, If thou wished to be perfected, retire, sell thy possessions, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Then Peter having answered, said to him, Behold, we have let go all things, and have followed thee; what therefore shall be to us?

And Peter began to say to him, Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee.

And Peter said, Behold, we have left all, and followed thee.

And every one who lets go houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for the sake of my name, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.

And Jesus having answered, said, Truly I say to you, There is none who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for sake of me, and the good news, Except he should receive a hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mother, and children, and fields, with expulsions; and in the time coming eternal life.

And having brought down the ship upon the land, having let go all things, they followed him.

So then, every one of you, who renounces not all of his possessions, cannot be my disciple.

And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.

But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

It may not be. We who died to sin, shall we yet live in it?

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: and if by the Spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not consideration for the flesh, for the passions.

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any.

And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air: But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.

And I say, Walk in Spirit, and complete not the desire of the flesh.

For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.

If therefore any cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel for honour, consecrated, and useful for the master, prepared for every good work.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now; Expecting the blessed hope, and apppearance of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you.

That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh.

And Boaz will answer and say to her, Announcing, it was announced to me all that thou didst with thy mother-in-law after the death of thy husband: and thou wilt leave thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy birth, and thou wilt come to a people thou knewest not yesterday the third day.

Look ye each not on the things of themselves, but also each the things of others.

And now if thou wilt, lift up their sin; and if not, wipe me off from thy book which thou didst write.

Good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor in what thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

And we the able ought to bear the weaknesses of the unable and not please ourselves.

Wherefore, if food offend my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, lest I shall offend my brother.

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

None making war is entangled with the affairs of life: that he may please him having enlisted him.

Let none seek his own, but each another's.

He must increase, and I must be diminished.