48 Bible Verses about Self Denial

Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a time,

for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall not drink wine and strong drink, but shall be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his birth;

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

And calling the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wishes to follow after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.

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

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

But whatever things were my gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ.

But if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.

thy kingdom come; thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth;

And Jesus departing thence saw a man sitting at the custom-house, called Matthew; and he said to him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

And he went out again by the lake, and all the multitude came to him, and he taught them. And passing by he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting at the custom house, and said to him, Follow me; and he arose and followed him.

And after these things he went out and saw a publican by the name of Levi, sitting at the custom house, and said to him, Follow me. And leaving all he arose and followed him.

And if your hand offends you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands to go away into hell, into the inextinguishable fire.

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

Then Peter answered and said, Behold we have left all and followed you; what shall we have therefore?

Peter said to him, Behold we have left all things and followed you.

And Peter said, Behold, we have left our [property] and followed you.

and whoever has left brothers or sisters, or a father or mother, or children, or lands or houses, for my name's sake, shall receive many times as much, and inherit eternal life.

Jesus said, I tell you truly, there is no one who has left a house, or brothers, or sisters, or a mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the sake of the good news, who shall not receive a hundred fold now at this present time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the life to come eternal life.

And bringing the ships to the land they left all and followed him.

So, therefore, no one of you can be my disciple who does not forsake all that he has.

Take heed to yourselves, that your hearts be not oppressed with revelling and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day come upon you suddenly;

But life precious to myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the service which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.

I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God, your reasonable service;

but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air; but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

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

I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh.

For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God;

if therefore any one purifies himself from these [errors], he shall be a vessel for honor, sanctified, of good use to the master, prepared for every good work.

teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life, looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ,

Be subject therefore to God; resist the devil and he will flee from you;

that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

and let each consider not his own interests, but also those of others.

it is good not to eat meat nor drink wine, nor [do] any thing by which your brother stumbles.

And we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.

Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

No one who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he may please him who has employed him as a soldier.

Let no one seek his own but the good of another.

He must increase, but I must decrease.