Bible Verses About Self-Denial

Therefore, put to death the earthly parts of your nature — sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed (which is a form of idolatry);

Never lie to one another; because you have stripped away the old self, with its ways,

No soldier on duty gets involved with civilian affairs, since he has to please his commanding officer.

It teaches us to renounce godlessness and worldly pleasures, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives now, in this age;

By trusting, Avraham obeyed, after being called to go out to a place which God would give him as a possession; indeed, he went out without knowing where he was going.

By trusting, he lived as a temporary resident in the Land of the promise, as if it were not his, staying in tents with Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov, who were to receive what was promised along with him.

All these people kept on trusting until they died, without receiving what had been promised. They had only seen it and welcomed it from a distance, while acknowledging that they were aliens and temporary residents on the earth.

For people who speak this way make it clear that they are looking for a fatherland.

Now if they were to keep recalling the one they left, they would have an opportunity to return;

By trusting, Moshe, after he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

He chose being mistreated along with God’s people rather than enjoying the passing pleasures of sin.

Therefore, let us go out to him who is outside the camp and share his disgrace.

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents not to give in to the desires of your old nature, which keep warring against you;

but to live such good lives among the pagans that even though they now speak against you as evil-doers, they will, as a result of seeing your good actions, give glory to God on the Day of his coming.

For the sake of the Lord, submit yourselves to every human authority — whether to the emperor as being supreme,

or to governors as being sent by him to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do what is good.

For it is God’s will that your doing good should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

Submit as people who are free, but not letting your freedom serve as an excuse for evil; rather, submit as God’s slaves.

Therefore, since the Messiah suffered physically, you too are to arm yourselves with the same attitude. For whoever has suffered physically is finished with sin,

with the result that he lives the rest of his earthly life no longer controlled by human desires, but by God’s will.

By these he has given us valuable and superlatively great promises, so that through them you might come to share in God’s nature and escape the corruption which evil desires have brought into the world.

since it was for the sake of HaShem that they went out without accepting anything from the Goyim.

“They defeated him because of the Lamb’s blood and because of the message of their witness. Even when facing death they did not cling to life.