death to self

²⁰I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.

²³Then he said to everyone: “If anyone is willing to come after me: let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day, and follow me.

²⁴Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,

²³Then he said to everyone: “If anyone is willing to come after me: let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day, and follow me. ²⁴For whoever will have saved his life, will lose it. Yet whoever will have lost his life for my sake, will save it.

²⁴For those who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires.

¹¹And so, you should consider yourselves to be certainly dead to sin, and to be living for God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹Since Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also should be armed with the same intention. For he who suffers in the flesh desists from sin, ²so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires of men, but by the will of God.

¹And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind. ²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

¹²Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, so as to live according to the flesh. ¹³For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if, by the Spirit, you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

¹¹And so, you should consider yourselves to be certainly dead to sin, and to be living for God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹²Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires. ¹³Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for God. ¹⁴For sin should not have dominion over you. For you are not under the law, but under grace.

⁸Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live together with Christ.

¹So what shall we say? Should we remain in sin, so that grace may abound? ²Let it not be so! For how can we who have died to sin still live in sin? ³Do you not know that those of us who have been baptized in Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death? ⁴For through baptism we have been buried with him into death, so that, in the manner that Christ rose from the dead, by the glory of the Father, so may we also walk in the newness of life. ⁵For if we have been planted together, in the likeness of his death, so shall we also be, in the likeness of his resurrection. ⁶For we know this: that our former selves have been crucified together with him, so that the body which is of sin may be destroyed, and moreover, so that we may no longer serve sin.

³⁰He must increase, while I must decrease.

¹¹It is a faithful saying: that if we have died with him, we will also live with him.

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.