54 Bible Verses about Self Denial

Jesus then said to his disciples. "If any man will follow me, let him forsake himself, and take up his cross and follow me.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,

If thou findest honey, eat so much as is sufficient for thee; lest thou be overfull, and parbreak it out again.

But Daniel was at a point with himself, that he would not be defiled through the king's meat, nor the wine which he drunk. And this he desired of the chief chamberlain, lest he should defile himself.

and chose rather to suffer adversity with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,

But they said, "We drink no wine, for Jonadab the

so that I had no lust to eat bread: as for flesh and wine, there came none within my mouth: No, I did not once anoint myself, till the whole three weeks were out.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall neither drink wine nor strong drink. And he shall be filled with the holy ghost, even in his mother's womb:

For John Baptist came unto you neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and ye say, 'He hath the devil.'

And he called the people unto him, with his disciples also, and said unto them, "Whosoever will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

And he said to them all, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross on him daily, and follow me.

Then Paul answered, and said, "What do ye weeping, and breaking mine heart? I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

But the things that were vantage unto me I counted loss for Christ's sake.

Wherfore if thy right eye offend thee, pluck him out, and cast him from thee: better it is for thee that one of thy members perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Let thy kingdom come. Thy will be fulfilled, as well in earth, as it is in heaven.

And as Jesus passed forth from thence he saw a man sit at the receipt of custom, named Matthew: and said to him, "Follow me." And he arose, and followed him.

And he went out again unto the sea, and all the people resorted unto him, and he taught them. And as Jesus passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sit at the receipt of custom and said unto him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.

And after that, he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, "Follow me." And he left all, rose up, and followed him.

Wherefore, if thy hand offend thee, cut him off. It is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than to go, having two hands, into hell: into fire that never shall be quenched,

And Jesus said unto him, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give it to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me."

Then answered Peter, and said to him, "Behold we have forsaken all, and have followed thee: what shall we have therefore?"

And Peter began to say unto him, "Lo, we have forsaken all, and have followed thee."

Then Peter said, "Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee."

And whosoever forsaketh houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake; the same shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Jesus answered and said, "Verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath forsaketh house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, other children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's, which shall not receive a hundred fold now in this life, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers and children, and lands with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.

And they brought the ships to land, and forsook all, and followed him.

So likewise, none of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, can be my disciple.

Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world: and that, that day come on you unawares.

But none of those things move me. Neither is my life dear unto myself; that I might fulfill my course with joy, and the ministration which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

God forbid. How shall we that are dead, as touching sin, live any longer therein?

For if ye live after the flesh, ye must die. But if ye mortify the deeds of the body, by the help of the spirit, ye shall live,

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercifulness of God, that ye make your bodies a living sacrifice: holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable serving of God.

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.

All things are lawful unto me: but all things are not profitable. I may do all things: but I will be brought under no man's power.

Every man that proveth masteries abstaineth from all things. And they do it to obtain a corruptible crown: but we to obtain an uncorruptible crown. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertain thing. So fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I tame my body and bring it into subjection, lest after that I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

And this they did, not as we looked for; but gave their own selves first to the Lord, and after unto us by the will of God:

I am crucified with Christ. I live verily, yet now not I, but Christ liveth in me. For the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the son of God, which loved me, and gave himself for me.

I say, walk in the spirit, and fulfil not the lusts of the flesh.

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

But if a man purge himself from such fellows, he shall be a vessel sanctified unto honour meet for the Lord, and prepared unto all good works.

and teacheth us that we should deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and that we should live sober minded, righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the mighty God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ:

Submit yourselves to God, and resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.

And Boaz answered and said unto her, "All is told me that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thine husband; how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land where thou wast born, and art come unto a nation which thou knewest not in time past.

and that no man consider his own, but what is mete for others.

Yet forgive them their sin, I pray thee: If not, wipe me out of thy book which thou hast written."

It is good neither to eat flesh, neither to drink wine, neither anything, whereby thy brother stumbleth, either falleth, or is made weak.

We which are strong ought to bear the frailness of them which are weak, and not to stand in our own conceits.

Wherefore if meat hurt my brother, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, because I will not hurt my brother.

Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols:

No man that warreth entangleth himself with worldly business; and that, because he would please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.

Let no man seek his own profit: but let every man seek another's wealth.

He must increase: and I must decrease.