Self Denial

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 →

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — 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.

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.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be. — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

“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.

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

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. — read the full passage →

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.

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

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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

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

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. — 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.

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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.

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

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

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

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.

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

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

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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.

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 →

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

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. — read the full passage →

But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

We love him, because he first loved us.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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 I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God’s sake, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Hownarrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by.

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

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

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

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

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 →

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. — read the full passage →

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

This saying is faithful: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him. — read the full passage →

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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.

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.

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

He must increase, but I must decrease.

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

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

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. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

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.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. — read the full passage →

By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, — 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 →

He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.

Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm. — read the full passage →

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God. — read the full passage →

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

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. — read the full passage →

By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, — read the full passage →