13 Bible Verses about The Surrendered life
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To save your life is to lose it, and to lose your life for my sake is to save it.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.
And if I distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing.
If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power.
Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other government and all other authority and power.
"I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.
your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness.
And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.
No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down. I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."
and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.
He who did not withhold even His own Son, but gave Him up for all of us, will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result)
For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it.
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The Surrendered life » Of Christ to his mission for further treatment of this subject » Dead to sin
Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.
If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as
The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.
The Surrendered life » Of Christ to his mission for further treatment of this subject » Dying with Christ
This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin;
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.
If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as
As it stands written in the Scripture, "For Thy sake they are, all day long, trying to kill us. We have been looked upon as sheep destined for slaughter."
For we, alive though we are, are continually surrendering ourselves to death for the sake of Jesus, so that in this mortal nature of ours it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.
The Surrendered life » Consecration » Examples of personal
And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.
The Surrendered life » Consecration » Of persons to special religious work
These men they brought to the Apostles, and, after prayer, they laid their hands upon them.
The Surrendered life » Consecration » A call to personal
I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.
If therefore a man keeps himself clear of these latter, he himself will be for specially honourable use, consecrated, fit for the Master's service, and fully equipped for every good work.
The Surrendered life » Resignation in trials, examples of » David
The Surrendered life » Entire consecration, examples of » Paul the apostle
And may God Himself who gives peace, make you entirely holy; and may your spirits, souls and bodies be preserved complete and be found blameless at the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss. Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » Tends to spiritual knowledge
So when he was not to be dissuaded, we ceased remonstrating with him and said, "The Lord's will be done!"
If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.
And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.
The Surrendered life » Entire consecration, examples of » Judah under king asa
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » Whole-hearted required
Let it not be in acts of eye-service as if you had but to please men, but as Christ's bondservants who are doing God's will from the heart.
fully equip you with every grace that you may need for the doing of His will, producing in us that which will truly please Him through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! 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 can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.
Again a second time He went away and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is impossible for this cup to pass without my drinking it, Thy will be done."
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » The rule of every-day life
And the world, with its cravings, is passing away, but he who does God's will continues for ever.
Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that."
The Surrendered life » Resignation in trials, examples of » Christ
and He said, "Abba! my Father! all things are possible for Thee: take this cup of suffering away from me: and yet not what I desire, but what Thou desirest."
Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put back your sword. Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?"
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » Establishes a divine relationship
To obey my Father who is in Heaven--that is to be my brother and my sister and my mother."
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 when he was not to be dissuaded, we ceased remonstrating with 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
"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.
The Surrendered life » Resignation in trials, examples of » Job
The Surrendered life » Unquestioning service » Paul
"But rise and go to the city, and you will be told what you are to do.