dying to self
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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.
24For those who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires.
24Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
17So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.
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.
38And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
31Daily I die, by means of your boasting, brothers: you whom I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
24He himself bore our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sin, would live for justice. By his wounds, you have been healed.
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.
35For whoever will have chosen to save his life, will lose it. But whoever will have lost his life, for my sake and for the Gospel, shall save it.
11And so, you should consider yourselves to be certainly dead to sin, and to be living for God in Christ Jesus our Lord.