Bible Verses About Self-Denial

Mortifie therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, vncleannes, the inordinate affection, euill concupiscence, and couetousnes which is idolatrie.

Lie not one to another, seeing that yee haue put off the olde man with his workes,

No man that warreth, entangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life, because he woulde please him that hath chosen him to be a souldier.

And teacheth vs that we should denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts, and that we should liue soberly and righteously, and godly in this present world,

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed God, to goe out into a place, which hee should afterward receiue for inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promise.

All these died in faith, and receiued not the promises, but sawe them a farre off, and beleeued them, and receiued them thankefully, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For they that say such things, declare plainely, that they seeke a countrey.

And if they had bene mindfull of that countrey, from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned.

By faith Moses when he was come to age, refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter,

And chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioy the pleasures of sinnes for a season,

Let vs goe foorth to him therefore out of the campe, bearing his reproch.

Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstaine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,

And haue your conuersation honest among the Gentiles, that they which speake euill of you as of euill doers, may by your good woorkes which they shall see, glorifie God in the day of visitation.

Therefore submit your selues vnto all maner ordinance of man for the Lordes sake, whether it be vnto the King, as vnto the superiour,

Or vnto gouernours, as vnto them that are sent of him, for the punishment of euill doers, and for the praise of them that doe well.

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

As free, and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnesse, but as the seruauntes of God.

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for vs in the flesh, arme your selues likewise with the same minde, which is, that he which hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sinne,

That he hence forward should liue (as much time as remaineth in the flesh) not after the lusts of men, but after the will of God.

Whereby most great and precious promises are giuen vnto vs, that by them ye should be partakers of the diuine nature, in that ye flee the corruption, which is in the worlde through lust.

Because that for his Names sake they went forth, and tooke nothing of the Gentiles.

But they ouercame him by that blood of that Lambe, and by that worde of their testimonie, and they loued not their liues vnto the death.