Bible Verses about “death to self”

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

“Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.”

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

“I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.”

“Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.”

“For 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.”

“He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.”

“So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.”

“He must increase, but I must decrease.”

“For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.”

“We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.”

“Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?”

“Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

“Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

“Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?”

“that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.”

“Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.”

“Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.”

“Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;”

“May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?”

“knowing 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.”

“But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.”

“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?”

“For he who has died has been freed from sin.”

“What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!”

“Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.”

“I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.”

“For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;”

“But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;”

“But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.”

“knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!”

“For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.”

“For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.”

“What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.”

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.”

“This saying is faithful: "For if we died with him, we will also live with him.”