48 Bible Verses about Self Denial

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.

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

"For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, "He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, "He shall be filled with the Holy Spirit from the hour of his birth,

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

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.

"What do you mean by thus breaking my heart with your grief?" answered Paul. "For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus."

But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ.

And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

thy kingdom come, and thy will be done, On earth, as in heaven.

As Jesus was passing thence, he saw a man called Mathew sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, "Follow me."

Then Jesus went again to the seaside, and the whole crowd kept coming to him, and he taught them. As he was passing by he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting in the tax-office; and he said to him, "Follow me." So he rose and followed him.

After this he went forth and noticed a tax-gatherer, named Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, "Follow me." He rose, left everything, and followed him.

"If your hand cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to be maimed and to enter into life than to have two hands and go away into hell, into the fire that cannot be put out.

"If you want to be perfect," said Jesus, "go, sell your property, give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

Whereupon Peter said to Jesus. "Look, Master, we have forsaken everything and followed you. Now what shall be our reward?"

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

Then Peter said, "Look! we have left our homes and followed you."

"And every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my sake, shall many times as much, and fall heir to eternal life.

"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that there is no man who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's, but shall receive a hundred times as much, now in this present world, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, lands??nd persecutions with them??nd in the world to come eternal life.

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

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

"But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be surcharged with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day catches you suddenly like a trap.

But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?

for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

"All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading. For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air, but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me.

I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided 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.

If then a man keeps himself clear of these latter, he will be a vessel for honor, consecrated, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age; While we look for the blessed hope and epiphany of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

So then ever be subject to God, Ever resist the devil and he will flee from you.

so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.

Let each have an eye not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to seek our own pleasure.

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

A soldier in active service avoids entangling himself in the every-day affairs of life, so that he may please his commander.

Let not each one be always seeking his own, but rather his neighbor's good.

He must increase, but I must decrease.