13 Bible Verses about The Surrendered life
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Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

If I should dole out everything I have for charity, and give my body up to torture in mere boasting pride, but have no love, I get from it no good at all.
After that comes the end, when He will turn the kingdom over to God His Father, when He will put an end to all other government, authority, and power;
I am the good shepherd myself. The good shepherd gives his own life for his sheep.
I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.
and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it as a free gift. I have the right to give it and I have the right to take it back. I have gotten this order from my Father."
and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.
Since He did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not with Him graciously give us everything else?
Do you not know that when you habitually offer yourselves to anyone for obedience to him, you are slaves to that one whom you are in the habit of obeying, whether it is the slavery to sin whose end is death or to obedience whose end is right-doing?
For whoever chooses to save his lower life will lose his higher life, but whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will save his higher life.
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The Surrendered life » Of Christ to his mission for further treatment of this subject » Dead to sin
And those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the lower nature with its passions and evil cravings.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,
He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,
This message is to be trusted: "If we indeed have died with Him, we will live with Him too.
The Surrendered life » Of Christ to his mission for further treatment of this subject » Dying with Christ
for we know that our former self was crucified with Him, to make our body that is liable to sin inactive, so that we might not a moment longer continue to be slaves to sin.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,
As the Scripture says: "For your sake we are being put to death the livelong day; we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."
For all the time I continue to live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that in my mortal lower nature the life of Jesus may be clearly shown.
The Surrendered life » Consecration » Examples of personal
Because He was recognized as a man, in reality as well as in outward form, He finally humiliated Himself in obedience so as to die, even to die on a cross.
The Surrendered life » Consecration » Of persons to special religious work
They presented these men to the apostles, and after they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
The Surrendered life » Consecration » A call to personal
I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
So if a man will cleanse himself from these things, he will be an instrument for honorable uses, consecrated, useful for the Master, and ready for any good service.
The Surrendered life » Resignation in trials, examples of » David
The Surrendered life » Entire consecration, examples of » Paul the apostle
May God Himself, who gave you peace, consecrate your whole being. May you be safely kept, spirit, soul, and body, so as to be blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes back.
But for Christ's sake I have counted all that was gain to me as loss. Yes, indeed, I certainly do count everything as loss compared with the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have lost everything, and value it all as mere refuse, in order to gain Christ
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » Tends to spiritual knowledge
So, since he would not yield to our appeal, we stopped begging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!"
If anyone is willing to keep on doing God's will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God, or merely expresses my own ideas.
Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect.
The Surrendered life » Entire consecration, examples of » Judah under king asa
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » Whole-hearted required
not serving them as though they were watching you, but as true slaves of Christ, trying to carry out the will of God.
perfectly fit you to do His will, He Himself, through Jesus Christ, accomplishing through you what is pleasing to Him. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.
The Surrendered life » Entire consecration, examples of » Josiah and his subjects
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » Prayer essential to
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » Christ the perfect example of
I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.
A second time He went away and prayed, "My Father, if it cannot pass by without my drinking it, your will be done."
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » The rule of every-day life
and the world is passing away and with it the evil longings it incites, but whoever perseveres in doing God's will lives on forever.
Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord is willing, we shall live and do this or that."
The Surrendered life » Resignation in trials, examples of » Christ
and He was saying, "Abba [which means 'Father'], anything is possible for you! Take this cup away from me! Yet, I pray, not what I want but what you want!"
Then Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into the sheath. Must I not drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » Establishes a divine relationship
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my mother and sister and brother."
The Surrendered life » Resignation in trials, examples of » Eli
The Surrendered life » Entire consecration, examples of » Caleb and joshua
The Surrendered life » Unquestioning service » Elisha
The Surrendered life » Unquestioning service » Noah
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » The result of inward law
The Surrendered life » Resignation in trials, examples of » Paul's friends
So, since he would not yield to our appeal, we stopped begging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!"
The Surrendered life » Unquestioning service » Isaiah
The Surrendered life » Unquestioning service » David
The Surrendered life » Unquestioning service » Christ
Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.
The Surrendered life » Resignation in trials, examples of » Job
The Surrendered life » Unquestioning service » Paul
But get up and go into the city, and there it will be told you what you ought to do."





