- Romans 6:11 (NIV):
“In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:31 (NIV):
“I face death every day—yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
- Galatians 2:20 (NIV):
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
- 2 Corinthians 4:10-11 (NIV):
“We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.”
- Luke 9:23 (NIV):
“Then he said to them all: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.’”
- 1 Corinthians 9:27 (NIV):
“No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.”
- Philippians 1:21 (NIV):
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
- Philippians 3:10-11 (NIV):
“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.”
- Colossians 3:3 (NIV):
“For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”
- 2 Timothy 2:11 (NIV):
“Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him.”
- Romans 8:13 (NIV):
“For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.”
- 1 Peter 4:1-2 (NIV):
“Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin. As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.”
- Galatians 5:24 (NIV):
“Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:30 (NIV):
“And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour?”
- Romans 12:1-2 (NIV):
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:31 (NIV):
“I face death every day—yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
- 2 Corinthians 4:7 (NIV):
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”
- 1 Peter 2:24 (NIV):
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
- Matthew 10:38-39 (NIV):
“Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.”
- Luke 14:27 (NIV):
“And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.”
- Romans 6:6 (NIV):
“For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—”
- Galatians 6:14 (NIV):
“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:15 (NIV):
“And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.”
- Colossians 2:20 (NIV):
“Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules?”
- Romans 8:36 (NIV):
“As it is written: ‘For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’”
- 2 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NIV):
“known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.”
- 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 (NIV):
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.”
- Philippians 3:7-8 (NIV):
“But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ.”
- Colossians 3:5 (NIV):
“Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.”
- Hebrews 12:1-2 (NIV):
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”