44 Bible Verses about Self Sacrifice

For whoever wishes to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, shall save it.

For you sympathized with those in bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.

By faith Moses when he became a man refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a time, judging the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had respect to the reward.read more.
By faith he left Egypt, not having feared the displeasure of the king; for he endured as seeing him that is invisible.

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.

And Jesus looking at him, loved him, and said to him, One thing you lack; go and sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have a treasure in heaven; and come and take up your cross and follow me.

And Jesus hearing it, said to him, One thing you yet want; sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have a treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.

Sell your property and bestow charity; make yourselves purses that become not old, and a treasury that fails not, in heaven, where no thief approaches, nor moth destroys;

And Peter said, Behold, we have left our [property] and followed you. And he said to them, I tell you truly, that there is no one who has left a house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, on account of the kingdom of God, who shall not receive manifold more in this time, and in the life to come eternal life.

Then Peter answered and said, Behold we have left all and followed you; what shall we have therefore? And Jesus said to them, I tell you truly, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, shall yourselves also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel; 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.

Peter said to him, Behold we have left all things and followed you. 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 all who believed were together and had all things common; and they sold their possessions and estates, and distributed them to all as any one had need;

AND the multitude that believed had one heart and one soul, and none said that anything of his possessions was his; but they had all things common. And the apostles delivered the testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great favor was towards them all. For no one among them was needy; for those who possessed lands or houses sold and brought the prices of the things sold,read more.
and laid them at the apostles' feet; and distribution was made to each as any one had need. And Joseph, called Barnabas by the apostles, which is interpreted, A son of consolation, a Levite, a Cyprian by birth, having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

AND I make known to you, brothers, the grace of God given to the churches of Macedonia, that in much trying affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality. For according to their ability, I testify, and beyond their ability, of their own accord,read more.
with much entreaty they desired of us the favor of a participation in the service to the saints; and not as we hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God,

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

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

If any one comes to me, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and still more his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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.

But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ

I tell you most truly, that unless the kernel of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it continues alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall preserve it to eternal life.

and he that does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

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. For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, shall find it.

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. For whoever wishes to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, and that of the good news, shall save it.

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. For whoever wishes to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, shall save it.

Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whoever shall lose shall save it.

By this we have known love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word nor tongue, but in work and truth.

always carrying about the death of Jesus in the body, that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

For being free from all men, I have made myself a servant of all, that I may gain more; to the Jews I have been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those under the law; to those without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those without law;read more.
to the weak I have been as weak, that I might gain the weak; I have been all things to all men, that I may save some in all conditions; and I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it.

Why also do we encounter danger every hour? By the joy on account of you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am more; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in imprisonments most abundant, in deaths often; five times I received of the Jews forty [stripes] lacking one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice have I been shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in the deep;read more.
often on journeys, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] race, in dangers from gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers, in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides things without, 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 am not displeased?

And I most gladly will spend and will be spent for your souls, even if the more abundantly I love you the less I am loved.

And a brother shall deliver a brother to death, and a father a son; and children shall rise up against their parents and put them to death; and you shall be hated by all men for my sake. But he that endures to the end shall be saved.

And brother shall deliver brother to death, and father, son; and children shall rise up against their parents and kill them; and you shall be hated by all on my account; but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

And you shall be delivered up by parents, and brothers, and relatives, and friends; and they shall kill some of you; and you shall be hated by all on my account;

And if I deal out all my property to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, and have not love, I shall not be profited.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying, That bonds and afflictions await me. 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.

And going forward a little, he fell on his face, and prayed and said, My Father, if it is possible let this cup pass from me; but not as I will, but as thou wilt.

And going forward a little he fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it was possible, the hour might pass away from him. And he said, Abba, father, all things are possible to thee. Take away this cup from me; but not what I will but what thou wilt.

saying, Father, if thou wilt, take this cup away from me; but not my will, but thine be done.

But if I am even poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate you all;

and they stoned Stephen, calling and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And kneeling down he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said this he fell asleep.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not a robbery to be equal with God; but he abased himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of man,read more.
and being found in form like a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient even till death, and the death of the cross.

and others had trial of mockings and scourges, and besides of bonds and imprisonment; they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains, and in caves and openings of the earth.

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