Quotes About Sacrifice

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.

Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.

What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...

So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him,

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.