Bible Verses About Self-Denial

Their possessions and goods they sold and divided them to all, according as every one had need.

For neither was there any one needy among them. For as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the price of the things they sold,

And Joseph, who, by the apostles, was surnamed Barnabas (which is, by interpretation, The son of consolation), a Levite, a Cyprian born,

Having land, sold it and brought the price and laid it at the feet of the Apostles.

And now, behold, being bound in the spirit, I go to Jerusalem: not knowing the things which shall befall me there:

Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem.

But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Then Paul answered and said: What do you mean, weeping and afflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die also in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?

(As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.

Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.

For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.

Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.

For one judgeth between day and day: and another judgeth every day. Let every man abound in his own sense.

He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that eateth eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth thanks to God.

For none of us liveth to himself: and no man dieth to himself.

For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.