Bible Verses About Self-Denial

and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need.

for there was not any one among them who did lack, for as many as were possessors of fields, or houses, selling them , were bringing the prices of the thing sold,

And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas--which is, having been interpreted, Son of Comfort--a Levite, of Cyprus by birth,

a field being his, having sold it , brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

`And now, lo, I--bound in the Spirit--go on to Jerusalem, the things that shall befall me in it not knowing,

save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

and Paul answered, `What do ye--weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

(according as it hath been written--`For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

one doth believe that he may eat all things--and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.

Thou--who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day alike ; let each in his own mind be fully assured.

He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard it , and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it . He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.

For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die;

for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.

And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ;