Bible Verses about “dying to self”

“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.”

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.”

“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.”

“who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.”

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

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

“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?”

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

“He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.”

“For 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.”