Self Sacrifice

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

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 who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

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.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

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.

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

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise. — 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 proclaim allegiance to his name.

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, — read the full passage →

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

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 →

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

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

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

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

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 →

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

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

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

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 if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’you would not have condemned the guiltless.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

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

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.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

All who believed were together, and had all things in common. — read the full passage →

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 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.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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.

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.

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

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. — read the full passage →

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

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 →

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 →

He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests; and he shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. — 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,

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. — read the full passage →

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

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

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Yes most certainly, 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 count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

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

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

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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 →

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

In this love has been made perfect among 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 Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

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 →

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 →

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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

They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, 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 good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

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