Luke 14:26-27 If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Acts 20:24  . . . nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Romans 6:6, 8, 11  . . . our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. . . . But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him . . . consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:31  . . . I die daily.

2 Corinthians 5:15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Galatians 6:14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 5:2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Philippians 3:10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death

Colossians 3:3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

James 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. . . .

1 John 2:15 Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

1 John 3:16  . . . he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.