Bible Verses about “being a disciple”
The Bible contains 26 verses about being a disciple across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”
“teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.”
“You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."”
“One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.”
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."”
“For 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?”
“This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.”
“he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.”
“Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.”
“But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:”
“You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
“For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,”
“He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.”
“He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men."”
“Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.”
“Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,”
“saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'”
“If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.”
“"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.”
“So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.”
“Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.”
“Or 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?”
“Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.”
“He 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.”
“A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.”
“Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,”