Bible Verses About Self-Denial

For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made partaker thereof.

And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one.

I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air.

But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

All things are lawful for me: but all things do not edify.

Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's.

As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.

Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed.

But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses,

In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.

And they that are Christ's have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

Each one not considering the things that are his own, but those that are other men's.

Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.

He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.

But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ.

Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ.

And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.