Bible Verses about โsacrifice yourselfโ
The Bible contains 25 verses about sacrifice yourself across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โDon'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.โ
โTherefore 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.โ
โeach of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.โ
โGreater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.โ
โI 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.โ
โWalk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.โ
โHave this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,โ
โFor to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,โ
โAnd being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.โ
โbut emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.โ
โwho, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,โ
โBut don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.โ
โHe said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.โ
โThrough him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.โ
โThen Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.โ
โBy this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.โ
โNeither 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.โ
โHe 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.โ
โYes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christโ
โFor whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.โ
โFor whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.โ
โHowever, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.โ
โor else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.โ
โFor 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.โ
โTherefore I endure all things for the chosen ones' sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.โ
