TOPICAL BIBLE
Self-Denial
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Mark 8:34Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.Mark 9:43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.Mark 10:28Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”Mark 10:29“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospelMark 12:43Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury.Mark 12:44For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”Luke 5:11And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him.Luke 5:27After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him,Luke 5:28and Levi got up, left everything, and followed Him.Luke 9:23Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.Luke 9:24For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.Luke 9:57As they were walking along the road, someone said to Jesus, “I will follow You wherever You go.”Luke 9:58Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”Luke 9:59Then He said to another man, “Follow Me.” The man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”Luke 9:60But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.Luke 14:27And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.Luke 14:28Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?Luke 14:29Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,Luke 14:30saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’Luke 14:31Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?Luke 14:32And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.Luke 14:33In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.Luke 18:27But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”Luke 18:28“Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”Luke 18:29“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of GodLuke 18:30will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”Luke 21:2and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.Luke 21:3“Truly I tell you,” He said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.Luke 21:4For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”John 12:25Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.Acts 2:44All the believers were together and had everything in common.Acts 2:45Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.Acts 4:34There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales,Acts 4:36Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (meaning Son of Encouragement),Acts 4:37sold a field he owned, brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.Acts 20:22And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.Acts 20:23I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.Acts 20:24But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.Acts 20:33I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.Acts 20:35In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”Romans 6:6We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.Romans 8:12Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.Romans 8:13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?Romans 8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”Romans 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.Romans 14:1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.Romans 14:2For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.Romans 14:3The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.Romans 14:4Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.Romans 14:5One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.Romans 14:6He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.Romans 14:7For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.Romans 14:8If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.Romans 14:9For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.Romans 14:10Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.