Self-Denial

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 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.

• Mark 9:43 NT

  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,

• Colossians 3:5 NT

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

• 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.

• Romans 15:1-3 NT

  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…

• 1 Corinthians 10:24 NT

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

• 1 Corinthians 10:33 NT

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 13:5 NT

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

• Philippians 2:4 NT

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

• Romans 14:20 NT

  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 NT

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

• Luke 3:11 NT

  He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:23 NT

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

• Luke 14:33 NT

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

• Matthew 16:24 NT

  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.

• Galatians 5:24 NT

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

• 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.

• Galatians 6:14 NT

  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.

• Ephesians 4:22 NT

  that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

• Colossians 3:9 NT

  Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

• Matthew 8:21 NT

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

• Matthew 8:22 NT

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

• Luke 14:26 NT

  “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.

• Hebrews 11:13-15 NT

  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things make it clear that they are…