Quotes About Sacrifice

For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesusí sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

For Christís love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

I do not say this to condemn you. I have said before that you so occupy our hearts that we live and die together with you.

In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.

For I testify that they gave according to their ability and even beyond it. Of their own accord,

And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, because it was the will of God.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?

I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.

in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.