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 49–72 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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For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
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Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
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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. I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air, but I beat…
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“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
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Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
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We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
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I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who 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.
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But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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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.
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Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
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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.
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each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
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However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ. 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,…
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Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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Titus 2:12 NT
instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
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Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
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Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which…
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1 Peter 4:1 NT
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,
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1 Peter 4:2 NT
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.
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3 John 1:1 NT
The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.
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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.
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Genesis 13:9 OT
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.”
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choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,