Dying To Self

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me. — read the full passage →

This saying is faithful: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. — read the full passage →

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. — read the full passage →

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

But you did not learn Christ that way; — read the full passage →

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it. — read the full passage →

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

I heard the voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. — read the full passage →

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.