Self Sacrifice
10 passages
- John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Read it in context - Philippians 2:3–4
3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Read it in context - Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
Read it in context - John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 13:7
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Read it in context - Matthew 10:39
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 13:1–3
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Read it in context - Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Read it in context - John 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
Read it in context - 1 John 3:16
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
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