SELF-DENIAL

Passages on this topic · 180

• Genesis 13:9

  Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”

• Genesis 17:8

  I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

• Genesis 22:1

  After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 22:2

  He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

• Genesis 22:3

  Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

• Genesis 22:4

  On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

• Genesis 22:5

  Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.”

• Genesis 22:6

  Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.

• Genesis 22:7

  Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

• Genesis 22:8

  Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

• Genesis 22:9

  They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

• Genesis 22:10

  Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

• Genesis 22:11

  Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 22:12

  He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

• Numbers 16:15

  Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”

• 1 Samuel 12:3

  Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

• 1 Samuel 12:4

  They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”

• 2 Samuel 24:24

  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.

• 1 Kings 17:12

  She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

• 1 Kings 17:13

  Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

• 1 Kings 17:14

  For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”

• 1 Kings 17:15

  She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

• Esther 4:16

  “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.”

• Psalms 132:3

  “Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;

• Psalms 132:4

  I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;

• Psalms 132:5

  until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

• Proverbs 16:32

  One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

• Proverbs 23:2

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

• Jeremiah 35:6

  But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever.

• Jeremiah 35:7

  You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you live.’

• Daniel 1:8

  But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

• Daniel 5:16

  But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

• Daniel 5:17

  Then Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

• Daniel 10:3

  I ate no pleasant bread, neither came meat nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

• Matthew 4:20

  They immediately left their nets and followed him.

• Matthew 5:29

  If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

• Matthew 5:30

  If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

• Matthew 8:19

  A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

• Matthew 8:20

  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.”

• Matthew 8:21

  Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

• Matthew 8:22

  But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

• Matthew 9:9

  As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

• Matthew 10:37

  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.

• Matthew 10:38

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

• Matthew 10:39

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

• Matthew 13:44

  “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

• Matthew 13:45

  “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,

• Matthew 13:46

  who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

• Matthew 16:24

  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.

• Matthew 16:25

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

• Matthew 18:8

  If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

• Matthew 18:9

  If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

• Matthew 19:12

  For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

• Matthew 19:21

  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.”

• Matthew 19:27

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

• Mark 1:16

  Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

• Mark 1:17

  Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”

• Mark 1:18

  Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.

• Mark 1:19

  Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.

• Mark 1:20

  Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

• Mark 2:14

  As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.

• Mark 8:34

  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.

• Mark 8:35

  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.

• Mark 9:43

  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,

• Mark 10:28

  Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”

• Mark 10:29

  Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

• Mark 12:43

  He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,

• Mark 12:44

  for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

• Luke 5:11

  When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

• Luke 5:27

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

• Luke 5:28

  He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

• Luke 9:23

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

• Luke 9:24

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

• Luke 9:57

  As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

• Luke 9:58

  Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

• Luke 9:59

  He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

• Luke 9:60

  But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 14:26

  “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

• Luke 14:27

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

• Luke 14:28

  For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

• Luke 14:29

  Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

• Luke 14:30

  saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’

• Luke 14:31

  Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

• Luke 14:32

  Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

• Luke 14:33

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

• Luke 18:27

  But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

• Luke 18:28

  Peter said, “Look, we have left everything, and followed you.”

• Luke 18:29

  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 God’s Kingdom’s sake,

• Luke 18:30

  who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”

• Luke 21:2

  He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.

• Luke 21:3

  He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

• Luke 21:4

  for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

• John 12:25

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

• Acts 2:44

  All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

• Acts 2:45

  They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

• Acts 4:34

  For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

• Acts 4:36

  Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

• Acts 4:37

  having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

• Acts 20:22

  Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

• Acts 20:23

  except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

• Acts 20:24

  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.

• Acts 20:33

  I coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or clothing.

• Acts 20:34

  You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

• Acts 20:35

  In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

• Acts 21:13

  Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

• Romans 6:6

  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.

• Romans 8:12

  So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

• Romans 8:13

  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.

• Romans 8:35

  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

• Romans 8:36

  Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

• Romans 13:14

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

• Romans 14:1

  Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

• Romans 14:2

  One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

• Romans 14:3

  Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

• Romans 14:4

  Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

• Romans 14:5

  One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

• Romans 14:6

  He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

• Romans 14:7

  For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

• Romans 14:8

  For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

• Romans 14:9

  For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

• Romans 14:10

  But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

• Romans 14:11

  For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”

• Romans 14:12

  So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

• Romans 14:13

  Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

• Romans 14:14

  I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

• Romans 14:15

  Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

• Romans 14:16

  Then don’t let your good be slandered,

• Romans 14:17

  for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

• Romans 14:18

  For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

• Romans 14:19

  So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

• Romans 14:20

  Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

• Romans 14:21

  It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

• Romans 14:22

  Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

• Romans 15:1

  Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

• Romans 15:2

  Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

• Romans 15:3

  For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

• Romans 15:4

  For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

• Romans 15:5

  Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

• 1 Corinthians 4:12

  We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

• 1 Corinthians 6:12

  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

• 1 Corinthians 8:10

  For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

• 1 Corinthians 8:11

  And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

• 1 Corinthians 8:12

  Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 8:13

  Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

• 1 Corinthians 9:12

  If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 9:15

  But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

• 1 Corinthians 9:18

  What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

• 1 Corinthians 9:19

  For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

• 1 Corinthians 9:23

  Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

• 1 Corinthians 9:25

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 9:26

  I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

• 1 Corinthians 9:27

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 10:23

  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

• 1 Corinthians 10:24

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

• 1 Corinthians 10:33

  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.

• 2 Corinthians 6:3

  We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

• Galatians 2:20

  I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives 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.

• Galatians 5:16

  But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

• Galatians 5:17

  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.

• Galatians 5:24

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

• Galatians 6:14

  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.

• Philippians 2:4

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

• Philippians 3:7

  However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

• Philippians 3:8

  Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a 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

• Philippians 3:9

  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

• Colossians 3:5

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

• 2 Timothy 2:4

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

• Titus 2:12

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

• Hebrews 11:25

  choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

• Hebrews 13:13

  Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

• 1 Peter 2:11

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

• 1 Peter 2:12

  having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

• 1 Peter 2:13

  Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

• 1 Peter 2:14

  or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

• 1 Peter 2:15

  For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

• 1 Peter 2:16

  as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

• 1 Peter 4:1

  Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

• 1 Peter 4:2

  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.

• 3 John 1:7

  because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

• Revelation 12:11

  They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.