Bible Verses About Self-Denial

For it is written, I liue, sayth the Lord, and euery knee shall bowe to me, and all tongues shall confesse vnto God.

So then euery one of vs shall giue accounts of himselfe to God.

Let vs not therefore iudge one another any more: but vse your iudgement rather in this, that no man put an occasion to fall, or a stumbling blocke before his brother.

I know, and am perswaded through the Lord Iesus, that there is nothing vncleane of it selfe: but vnto him that iudgeth any thing to be vncleane, to him it is vncleane.

But if thy brother be grieued for the meate, nowe walkest thou not charitably: destroy not him with thy meate, for whome Christ dyed.

Cause not your commoditie to be euill spoken of.

For the kingdome of God, is not meate nor drinke, but righteousnes, and peace, and ioye in the holy Ghost.

For whosoeuer in these things serueth Christ, is acceptable vnto God, and is approoued of men.

Let vs then follow those things which concerne peace, and wherewith one may edifie another.

Destroy not the worke of God for meates sake: all things in deede are pure: but it is euill for the man which eateth with offence.

It is good neither to eate flesh, nor to drinke wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weake.

Hast thou faith? haue it with thy selfe before God: blessed is hee that condemneth not himselfe in that thing which he aloweth.

We which are strong, ought to beare the infirmities of the weake, and not to please our selues.

Therefore let euery man please his neighbour in that that is good to edification.

For Christ also would not please himselfe, but as it is written, The rebukes of them which rebuke thee, fell on me.

For whatsoeuer things are written aforetime, are writte for our learning, that we through patience, and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope.

Now the God of patience and consolation giue you that ye be like minded one towards another, according to Christ Iesus,

All thinges are lawfull vnto mee, but all thinges are not profitable. I may doe all things, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any thing.

For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at table in the idoles temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weake, be boldened to eate those things which are sacrificed to idoles?

And through thy knowledge shall the weake brother perish, for whome Christ died.

Nowe when ye sinne so against the brethren, and wound their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christ.

Wherefore if meate offende my brother, I wil eate no flesh while the world standeth, that I may not offend my brother.

If others with you bee partakers of this power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.

But I haue vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine.

What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.