Self Sacrifice

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

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

He that loveth his life loseth 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 on him should not perish, but have eternal 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 know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love 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 have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For the Son of man also 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 gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye. — read the full passage →

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

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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 love, which is the bond of perfectness.

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

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

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

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

Have this mind 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 imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, 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 →

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would 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, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

And he said unto all, If any man would 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 verily buy it of thee at a price; neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come 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 also will forget thy children.

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

And he that doth not take his cross and follow 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 therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

Hereby know we love, 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 grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; — read the full passage →

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in 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 would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire 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 whole world.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

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

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

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

For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall 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, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

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

neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

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

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

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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

always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested 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:

These things therefore the soldiers did. But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth 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 fine flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof. And the priest shall burn it as the memorial thereof upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah:

unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious, — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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 mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: — read the full passage →

For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.

Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

Yea verily, 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 do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. — read the full passage →

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

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

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit. — read the full passage →

Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

Jesus said unto him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell that which thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, 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 had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

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

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

till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

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

And he called unto him the multitude with his disciples, and said unto them, If any man would 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, as in heaven, so on earth.

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, 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 passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross. — read the full passage →

For the law having a shadow of the goodthingsto come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.

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