sacrifice yourself
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13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
16We know the love of God in this way: because he laid down his life for us. And so, we must lay down our lives for our brothers.
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 walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.
15Therefore, through him, let us offer the sacrifice of continual praise to God, which is the fruit of lips confessing his name. 16But do not be willing to forget good works and fellowship. For God is deserving of such sacrifices.
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 whoever will have saved his life, will lose it. Yet whoever will have lost his life for my sake, will save it.
4Let each of you not consider anything to be your own, but rather to belong to others. 5For this understanding in you was also in Christ Jesus: 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized. 7Instead, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and accepting the state of a man. 8He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross.
24Then Jesus said to his disciples: “If anyone is willing to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25For whoever would save his life, will lose it. But whoever will have lost his life for my sake, shall find it.
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.
21For you have been called to this because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in his footsteps.
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.
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.
7But the things which had been to my gain, the same have I considered a loss, for the sake of Christ. 8Yet truly, I consider everything to be a loss, because of the preeminent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of everything, considering it all to be like dung, so that I may gain Christ,
26Otherwise, he would need to have suffered repeatedly since the beginning of the world. But now, one time, at the consummation of the ages, he has appeared in order to destroy sin though his own sacrifice.
34And calling together the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone chooses to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 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.
10I endure all things for this reason: for the sake of the elect, so that they, too, may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with heavenly glory.