Self-Denial
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Self-Denial’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 25–48 of 169 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Luke 5:11 NT
When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.
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Luke 5:27 NT
After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”
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Luke 9:23 NT
He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
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Luke 9:24 NT
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it.
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Luke 9:57-60 NT
As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.” 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.” He said to…
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“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. Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.…
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But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.” He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or…
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Luke 21:2-4 NT
He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins. He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that…
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John 12:25 NT
He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
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Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there; except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me. But these things don’t count; nor do I hold…
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Acts 21:13 NT
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.”
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Romans 6:6 NT
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.
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Romans 8:12 NT
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
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Romans 8:13 NT
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.
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Romans 8:35 NT
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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Romans 8:36 NT
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
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Romans 13:14 NT
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
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Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge…
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Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is…
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“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.
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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? And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake…
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If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
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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.
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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.