Bible Verses About Commitment and Sacrifice

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord.

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

And he left all, rose up, and followed him.

And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,