TOPICAL BIBLE
Self-Denial
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Mark 8:34He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.Mark 9:43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,Mark 10:28Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”Mark 10:29Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,Mark 12:43He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,Mark 12:44for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”Luke 5:11When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.Luke 5:27After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”Luke 5:28He left everything, and rose up and followed him.Luke 9:23He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.Luke 9:24For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.Luke 9:57As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”Luke 9:58Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”Luke 9:59He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”Luke 9:60But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.Luke 14:27Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.Luke 14:28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?Luke 14:29Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,Luke 14:30saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’Luke 14:31Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?Luke 14:32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.Luke 14:33So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.Luke 18:27But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”Luke 18:28Peter said, “Look, we have left everything, and followed you.”Luke 18:29He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God’s sake,Luke 18:30who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”Luke 21:2He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.Luke 21:3He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,Luke 21:4for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”John 12:25He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.Acts 2:44All who believed were together, and had all things in common.Acts 2:45They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.Acts 4:34For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,Acts 4:36Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,Acts 4:37having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.Acts 20:22Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;Acts 20:23except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.Acts 20:24But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.Acts 20:33I coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or clothing.Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”Romans 6:6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.Romans 8:12So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.Romans 8:13For if you live after the flesh, you must 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? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Romans 8:36Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”Romans 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.Romans 14:1Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.Romans 14:2One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.Romans 14:3Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.Romans 14:4Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.Romans 14:5One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.Romans 14:6He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.Romans 14:7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.Romans 14:8For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.Romans 14:9For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.Romans 14:10But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.