Bible Verses About Self-Denial

Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.

Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.

Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.

No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

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

But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross.

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.