54 Bible Verses about Self Denial

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

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

Honey thou hast found -- eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it.

And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself.

having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

And they say, 'We do not drink wine: for Jonadab son of Rechab, our father, charged us, saying, Ye do not drink wine, ye and your sons -- unto the age;

desirable bread I have not eaten, and flesh and wine hath not come in unto my mouth, and I have not anointed myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days.

for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

'For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;

And having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, 'Whoever doth will to come after me -- let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me;

And he said unto all, 'If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me;

and Paul answered, 'What do ye -- weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

'But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

'Thy reign come: Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on the earth.

And Jesus passing by thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, named Matthew, and saith to him, 'Be following me,' and he, having risen, did follow him.

And he went forth again by the sea, and all the multitude was coming unto him, and he was teaching them, and passing by, he saw Levi of Alpheus sitting at the tax-office, and saith to him, 'Be following me,' and he, having risen, did follow him.

And after these things he went forth, and beheld a tax-gatherer, by name Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, 'Be following me;' and he, having left all, having arisen, did follow him.

And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable --

Jesus said to him, 'If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.'

Then Peter answering said to him, 'Lo, we did leave all, and follow thee, what then shall we have?'

And Peter began to say to him, 'Lo, we left all, and we followed thee.'

And Peter said, 'Lo, we left all, and did follow thee;'

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

And Jesus answering said, 'Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my sake, and for the good news', who may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;

and they, having brought the boats upon the land, having left all, did follow him.

'So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service;

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible; I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

And Boaz answereth and saith to her, 'It hath thoroughly been declared to me all that thou hast done with thy mother-in-law, after the death of thy husband, and thou dost leave thy father, and thy mother, and the land of thy birth, and dost come in unto a people which thou hast not known heretofore.

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

and now, if Thou takest away their sin -- and if not -- blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.'

Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

let no one seek his own -- but each another's.

'Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;