Self Sacrifice

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. — read the full passage →

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. — read the full passage →

Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. — read the full passage →

And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; — read the full passage →

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

And all that believed were together, and had all things common; — read the full passage →

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. — read the full passage →

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord:

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, — read the full passage →

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: — read the full passage →

For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. — read the full passage →

Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? — read the full passage →

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. — read the full passage →

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. — read the full passage →

And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. — read the full passage →

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; — read the full passage →