Bible Verses About Self-Denial: Christ set an example of

Again doth the Devil take him to a very high mount, and doth shew to him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them,

and saith to him, `All these to thee I will give, if falling down thou mayest bow to me.'

Then saith Jesus to him, `Go--Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'

because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'

who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,