Bible Verses About Self-Denial

After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

Yeshua said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

But Yeshua said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’

Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

Peter said, “Look, we have left everything, and followed you.”

He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God’s sake,

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”

He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.

He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.