Bible Verses About Self-Denial

for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

let no one seek his own--but each another's.

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

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

And for me, let it not be--to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

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,

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ--the righteousness that is of God by the faith,