44 Bible Verses about Self Sacrifice

For whosoever may wish to save his soul shall lose it; and whosoever may lose his soul for my sake, he shall save it.

For you suffered along with the prisoners, and received with joy the spoliation of your goods, knowing that you have a better and abiding possession.

By faith Moses, having become an adult, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he was looking unto the recompense of reward.read more.
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he went out, as seeing the invisible one.

Jesus said to him, If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Jesus looking on him loved him, and said to him, One thing is wanting to thee: go, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

And Jesus hearing these things, said to him, Still one thing is lacking to thee: Sell all things whatsoever you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Sell your possessions and give alms; make for yourselves purses that will not get old, and treasure in the heavens which can not be stolen, where the thief does not draw nigh, nor the moth corrupt.

And Peter said, Behold, we have left all things, and followed thee. And He said to them, Truly I say unto you, that there is no one who has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who may not receive a hundredfold in this time, and in the coming age eternal life.

Then Peter responding said to Him, Behold, we have left all things, and followed Thee; what then shall be to us? And Jesus said to them, Truly I say unto you, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man may sit upon the throne of His glory, you shall also sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, on account of my name, shall receive a hundred-fold, and inherit eternal life.

Peter began to say to Him, Behold, we have left all things, and followed thee. Jesus said, Truly I say unto you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, on account of me and the gospel, except he may receive a hundredfold now in this time, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the coming age eternal life.

And all those who believed were together and had all things common, and they sold their possessions and personalities, and divided the same unto all, as each one had need.

And of the multitude who believed there was one heart and soul, and no one was saying that any of those things which belonged to him were his own, but all things were common to them. And with great power the apostles continued to give witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ the Lord; and great grace was upon them all. For no one among them was in need; for so many possessions of lands or houses as belonged to them, selling, they were bringing the prices of the things having been sold,read more.
and laying them at the feet of the apostles; and it was distributed to each as any one had need. And Joseph called Barnabas by the apostles, which is interpreted, Son of consolation, a Levite, a Cyprian by race, a farm belonging to him, having sold it, he brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

But, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia; because in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. Because I witness, that according to their ability, and beyond their ability they were anxious,read more.
with much exhortation praying our favor and the fellowship of the ministry which is to the saints: and not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us through the will of God:

Thus then every one of you who does not consecrate all his possessions, is not able to be my disciple.

He that loveth father and mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

If any one comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and even yet his own soul, he is not able to be my disciple.

And after these things He came out, and saw a publican, by name Levi, sitting at the toll, and He said to him, Follow me. And having left all things, rising up, he followed Him.

Yes truly, I even counted all things loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I suffer the loss of all things, and I consider them but excrements, that I may gain Christ,

Truly, truly, I say unto you, Unless the grain of wheat having fallen into the ground may die, it remains alone; but if it may die, it produces much fruit. The one loving his soul shall lose it; but the one that hateth his soul in this world will preserve it unto eternal life.

Whosoever does not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

Whosoever does not carry his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, If any one wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever may wish to save his soul shall lose it: and whosoever may lose his soul for my sake shall find it.

And calling the multitude to Him with His disciples, He said to them, Whosoever wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever may wish to save his soul shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his soul for my sake and that of the gospel shall save it.

And He spoke to all, If any one wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever may wish to save his soul shall lose it; and whosoever may lose his soul for my sake, he shall save it.

Whosoever may seek to save his soul shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it shall find it.

In this we know the divine love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him? Little children, let us love with divine love not in word, nor in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

always bearing about the dying of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be made manifest in our bodies. For we while living are always being delivered up to death for the sake of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

For being free from all, I rendered myself servant to all, that I may gain the more. And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I may gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not myself being under law, that I may gain those under the law; to those without law, I became as without law, not being without the law of God, but under the law of Christ, that I may gain those without law.read more.
To the weak I became as weak, that I may gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I may indeed save some. But I do all these things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be its fellow-partaker.

Why indeed are we in jeopardy every hour? I protest by your rejoicing, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a day and a night I spent in the deep.read more.
Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. Besides all these, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I do not burn?

But I will most delightfully spend and be spent for your souls. If the more abundantly I love you am I loved the less?

And brother will deliver brother unto death, and the father the child: and children will rise up against parents, and put them to death. And you will be hated by all on account of my name: but he that persevereth unto the end, the same shall be saved.

And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and the children will rise up against the parents, and put them to death. And you shall be hated by all on account of my name: but the one persevering to the end, the same shall be saved.

And you shall be delivered up also by your parents, and brothers, and relatives, and friends; and they will kill some of you. And you shall be hated by all, on account of my name:

And if I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I may give my body that I shall be burnt, and have not divine love, I am profited as to nothing.

except that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesses to me, saying that bonds and tribulations await me. But I consider my life worthy of no consideration to myself, so as to finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

And having gone forward a little, He fell on His face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me: moreover not as I will, but as thou wilt.

And having gone forward a little, He fell on the ground; and continued to pray, that if possible, the hour may pass from Him. And He said, Father, Father, all things are possible to thee; take this cup from me; but not what I will, but what thou wilt.

saying, Father, if this cup is willing to pass from me; moreover let not my will, but thine be done.

But if indeed I am poured out for a sacrifice and an offering for your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice along with you all;

and continued to stone Stephen, calling upon the Lord, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And putting down his knees, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, do not impute this sin to them. And saying this, he fell asleep.

Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not usurpation to be equal with God, but he humbled himself, having taken the form of a servant, being in the likeness of men; and having been found in fashion like a man;read more.
he humbled himself, being obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

and others received the trial of scourgings and mockings, and still of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were tempted, they were burnt, they died by the edge of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, troubled, persecuted, of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, and in mountains, and caves and dens of the earth.

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus, and on account of the word of God, who did not worship the beast, nor his image, and they did not receive his mark on their forehead, and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.