54 Bible Verses about Self Denial

Then Jesus told his disciples: If any man wants to follow me (be mine), let him deny (disown) himself, and take up his stake and follow me (Greek: akoloutheo moi, let him be following me) (accompany me) (be in the same way with me).

Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.

Have you found honey? Eat only what is needed or you will be too full and vomit.

Daniel determined in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's special food and wine. He requested permission from the officer in charge that he might not defile himself.

He chose to share the bad treatment with the people of God, rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

But they answered: No! The ancestor of our clan, Jonadab son of Rechab, made a rule that we must obey. He said: 'Do not ever drink wine

I ate no pleasant bread; neither flesh nor wine entered my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three whole weeks were completed.

He will be great in the eyes of God. He will not drink wine or strong drink and he will be full of Holy Spirit from the time of his birth.

John the Baptist came fasting and drinking no wine and you say he has a demon.

He then spoke to both his disciples and the crowd. He said: If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his stake and follow me.

He told them all: If any man would come after me let him deny himself. Let him take up his stake (of self-denial) daily, and follow me.

Why do you weep and break my heart? Paul answered: For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Things that offered gain to me I count a loss for Christ.

If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away! It is better to lose a part of your body then to have your whole body destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom.

Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:33) (Daniel 2:44) (Revelation 11:15) (Psalm 37:10,29) (Acts 24:15)

Jesus moved on. He then saw Matthew seated at his work collecting taxes. He said to him: Follow me. He rose and followed him.

Again he went to the seaside and all the people followed him. So he taught them. He saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, seated at the place where taxes were collected. He said to him: Come with me. And he got up and went with him.

After that he met a tax collector named Levi sitting at his place of business. He told him: Follow me. He gave up everything and followed him.

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better to enter into life maimed then, having two hands to be destroyed in the ever-burning trash fires in the Valley of Hinnom. (Greek: Gehenna)

Jesus then replied: If you wish to be complete, go sell your possessions and give the money to the poor. You will have wealth in heaven. Then follow me!

Then Peter said: See, we have given up everything to follow you. What then will we have?

Peter said to him: We have left all and followed you.

Peter said: Indeed we have left our own to follow you.

Everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will receive many times as much, and have everlasting life.

Jesus said: Truly I tell you, a man that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the sake of the good news, will receive a hundred times as much now in this time, and in the age to come everlasting life.

After they brought their boats to land they left all and followed him.

Likewise, concluded Jesus, none of you may be my disciples unless you give up everything you have.

Be awake so your hearts are not weighed down. Do not allow the weight of worldly involvement, drunkenness, and cares of this life be a snare when that day suddenly comes.

I do not consider my life of any account. It is not dear to me so that I may finish the race, and I may accomplish the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to preach the good news of the grace of God.

God forbid. We died to sin! How could we any longer live in it?

for if you live according to flesh, you are about to die. If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Put on (live like) (clothe yourself with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient (profitable) (good). All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the authority (power) (control) of anything.

Every man taking part in the contest is temperate in all things. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we do it to receive an incorruptible crown. I do not run without definite aim (purpose) and I do not fight like a man beating the air. But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.

This is not as we hoped. First they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.

I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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

If anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present age (world) (period of time). Look for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of the great God. And look for our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Be subject to God! Resist [Satan] the Devil and he will flee from you.

From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).

Boaz answered: I have heard about everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband. You went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you.

Look out for the interest of others and not only for your own personal interest.

Will you forgive their sin? If not, please wipe me out of the book you have written.

It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened.

We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens. We should not just please ourselves.

If food makes my brother stumble I will eat no food at all so I do not make my brother stumble.

Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

No soldier entangles himself in the affairs of this life. That way, he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.

Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other [person].

He must increase and I must decrease.