Bible Verses About Self-Denial

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.

It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.

Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.

Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,

or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.

For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.

Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

For they went out on behalf of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.

They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.