Bible Verses About Self-Denial

And after these things, he went forth and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said to him: Follow me.

And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: for he that shall lose his life for my sake shall save it.

And it came to pass, as they walked in the way, that a certain man said to him: I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests: but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me first to go and to bury my father.

And Jesus said to him: Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:

Lest, after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him,

Saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish.

Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him?

Or else, while the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of peace.

So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth cannot be my disciple.

He said to them: The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.

Then Peter said: Behold, we have left all things and have followed thee.

Who said to them: Amen, I say to you, there is no man that hath left home or parents or brethren or wife or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

Who shall not receive much more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in two brass mites.

And he said: Verily, I say to you that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all.

For all these have of their abundance cast into the offerings of God: but she of her want hath cast in all the living that she had.

Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me.

Itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his life in this world keepeth it unto life eternal.