Quotes About Sacrifice

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.

because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christís afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.

having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

For I testify about him that he goes to great pains for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.

Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

So when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left on our own in Athens.

He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.

and thus will incur judgment because they are setting aside their first faith.

Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.

For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the elect, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him;

if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;

For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.