Dying To Self

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

And he said unto all, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me;

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

verily, verily, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remaineth alone; and if it may die, it doth bear much fruit;

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

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

and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;

so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

for to me to live <FI>is<Fi> Christ, and to die gain.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him,

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

`Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And he said unto all, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me; — read the full passage →

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: For if we died together--we also shall live together;

on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair;

so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord. — read the full passage →

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with <FI>him<Fi> , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin, — read the full passage →

are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

And for me, let it not be--to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.

Also--when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou <FI>art<Fi> with me, Thy rod and Thy staff--they comfort me.

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit, — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Precious in the eyes of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the death for His saints.

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

and ye did not so learn the Christ, — read the full passage →

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it; — read the full passage →

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live; — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

`In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

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

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, <FI>so<Fi> also we shall be of the rising again;

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours--and their works do follow them!'

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

So also <FI>is<Fi> the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; — read the full passage →

`So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

`Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness.

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

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

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith;