Bible Verses About Self-Denial

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

I have been crucified with Messiah, and it is no longer I that live, but Messiah living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Messiah.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Messiah Yeshua, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Messiah

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from God by faith;