Sacrifice Yourself

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

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

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.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

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 →

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.

However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. — read the full passage →

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

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.

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

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.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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

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.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. — read the full passage →

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

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 →

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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. — read the full passage →

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

“Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; — read the full passage →

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. — read the full passage →

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. — read the full passage →

“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. — read the full passage →

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

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.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me. — read the full passage →

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

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

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

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

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

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.

Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” — read the full passage →

which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

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

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!” — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. — read the full passage →

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. — read the full passage →

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. — read the full passage →

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

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—