Bible Verses About Self-Denial

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses: that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself.

Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world,

By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing whither he went.

By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.

All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.

For they that say these things do signify that they seek a country.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless, time to return.

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharao's daughter:

Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God than to have the pleasure of sin for a time:

Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling,

Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good.

For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

Christ therefore having suffered in the flesh, be you also armed with the same thought: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sins:

That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God.

By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.

Because, for his name they went out, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of the testimony: and they loved not their lives unto death.