13 Bible Verses about Surrendering
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Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice -- alive, holy, and pleasing to God -- which is your reasonable service.
"As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,
and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Peter began to speak to him, "Look, we have left everything to follow you!"
Wait patiently for the Lord! Wait confidently for him! Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner, a man who carries out wicked schemes!
For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit,
One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, "What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!"
Yet, Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.
