Bible Verses About Self-Denial

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

And I do all things for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.

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

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

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

who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;

and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

Yea verily, 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 do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

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