54 Bible Verses about Self Denial

Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

Have you found honey? Eat only as much as is enough for you, lest you be filled with it and vomit it.

But Daniel laid on his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank. So he asked permission of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

But they said, We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, you nor your sons forever.

I ate no food for delight, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

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 Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, He has a demon.

And calling near the crowd with His disciples, He said to them, Whoever will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

And He said to all, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

Then 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.

But whatever things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

And if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.

Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.

And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax-office. And He said to him, Follow Me! And he arose and followed Him.

And He went out again by the seaside. And all the crowd came to Him, and He taught them. And as He passed on, He saw Levi the son of Alpheus sitting at the tax-office. And He said to him, Follow Me. And he arose and followed Him.

And after these things He went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi, sitting at the tax-office. And He said to him, Follow Me. And leaving all, he rose up and followed Him.

And if your hand offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than to have two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched

Jesus said to him, If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me.

Then answering Peter said to Him, Behold, we have forsaken all and have followed You. Therefore what shall we have?

Then Peter began to say to Him, Lo, we have left all and have followed You.

And Peter said, Lo, we have left all and have followed You.

And everyone who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

And Jesus answered and said, Truly I say to you, There is no man that has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospel's sake, but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions, and in the world to come, eternal life.

And bringing their boats onto land, forsaking all things, they followed Him.

So then, everyone of you who does not forsake all his possessions, he cannot be My disciple.

And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;

But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.

Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.

I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh.

All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air. But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.

And not as we hoped, but first they gave themselves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God,

I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.

I say, then, Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

Therefore if anyone purges himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honor, sanctified and useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world, looking for the blessed hope, and the appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

in order no longer to live in the lusts of men, but in the will of God the remaining time in the flesh.

And Boaz answered and said to her, It has been fully shown to me all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, And you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before now.

Do not let each man look upon his own things, but each man also on the things of others.

And now will You forgive their sin! And if not, I pray You, blot me out of Your book which You have written.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

Then we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Therefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, that I do not offend my brother.

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

Let no one seek his own, but each one another's.

He must increase, but I must decrease.