Bible Verses About Self-Denial: General references

After these things, God tested Avraham. He said to him, "Avraham!" and he answered, "Here I am."

He said, "Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Yitz'chak; and go to the land of Moriyah. There you are to offer him as a burnt offering on a mountain that I will point out to you."

Avraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, together with Yitz'chak his son. He cut the wood for the burnt offering, departed and went toward the place God had told him about.

On the third day, Avraham raised his eyes and saw the place in the distance.

Avraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go there, worship and return to you."

Avraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Yitz'chak his son. Then he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and they both went on together.

Yitz'chak spoke to Avraham his father: "My father?" He answered, "Here I am, my son." He said, "I see the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

Avraham replied, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son"; and they both went on together.

They came to the place God had told him about; and Avraham built the altar there, set the wood in order, bound Yitz'chak his son and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

Then Avraham put out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.

But the angel of ADONAI called to him out of heaven: "Avraham? Avraham!"He answered, "Here I am."

He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy! Don't do anything to him! For now I know that you are a man who fears God, because you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

But the king said to Aravnah, "No; I insist on buying it from you at a price. I refuse to offer to ADONAI my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing."So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for one-and-a-quarter pounds of silver shekels.

"I will not enter the house where I live or get into my bed,

I will not allow myself to sleep or even close my eyes,

until I find a place for ADONAI, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Ya'akov."

He who controls his temper is better than a war hero, he who rules his spirit better than he who captures a city.

If you have a big appetite, put a knife to your throat!

I hadn't eaten any food that satisfied me - neither meat nor wine had entered my mouth, and I didn't anoint myself once, until three full weeks had passed.

If your right eye makes you sin, gouge it out and throw it away! Better that you should lose one part of you than have your whole body thrown into Gei-Hinnom.

And if your right hand makes you sin, cut it off and throw it away! Better that you should lose one part of you than have your whole body thrown into Gei-Hinnom.

A Torah-teacher approached and said to him, "Rabbi, I will follow you wherever you go."

Yeshua said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds flying about have nests, but the Son of Man has no home of his own."

Another of the talmidim said to him, "Sir, first let me go and bury my father."

But Yeshua replied, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead."