Bible verses about "discipleship" | Coverdale

²⁴ Then sayde Iesus vnto his disciples: Yf eny man wil folowe me, let him forsake himself, & take vp his crosse, and folowe me. ²⁵ For who so wil saue his life, shal lose it: but whoso loseth his life for my sake, shal fynde it.

⁴⁰ The disciple is not aboue his master. But whosoeuer is perfecte, ye same shalbe as his master.

²⁶ Yf eny man come vnto me, and hate not his father, mother, wife, childre, brethre, sisters, yee and his owne life also, he can not be my disciple.

³³ So likewyse euery one of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, can not be my disciple.

³⁴ A new comaundemet geue I you, that ye loue together as I haue loued you, yt euen so ye loue one another. ³⁵ By this shal euery man knowe that ye are my disciples, yf ye haue loue one to another.

¹ I am a true vyne, and my father is an hussbande man. ² Euery braunch that bringeth not forth frute in me, shal he cut of: and euery one that bryngeth forth frute, shal he pourge, yt it maye bringe forth more frute. ³ Now are ye cleane, because of the worde, that I haue spoke vnto you. ⁴ Byde ye in me, and I in you. Like as ye braunch can not brynge forth frute of it self excepte it byde in the vyne, Euen so nether ye also, excepte ye abyde in me. ⁵ I am the vyne, ye are the braunches. He that abydeth in me, and I in him, the same bryngeth forth moch frute: for without me can ye do nothinge. ⁶ He that abydeth not in me, is cast out as a vyne braunche, and it wythereth, and men gather it vp, and cast it in to the fyre, and it burneth. ⁷ Yf ye abyde in me, and my wordes abyde in you, ye shal axe what ye wyl, & it shal be done vnto you. ⁸ Herin is my father praysed, that ye brynge forth moch frute, and become my disciples. ⁹ Like as my father hath loued me, eue so haue I loued you. Cotynue ye i my loue. ¹⁰ Yf ye kepe my comaundementes, ye shal cotynue in my loue: like as I haue kepte my fathers comaundementes, and cotynue in his loue. ¹¹ These thinges haue I spoken vnto you, that my ioye might remayne in you, and yt youre ioye might be perfecte. ¹² This is my comaundement, that ye loue together, as I haue loued you. ¹³ No man hath greater loue, then to set his life for his frende. ¹⁴ Ye are my frendes, yf ye do that I commaunde you. ¹⁵ Hence forth call I you not seruauntes, for a seruaunt knoweth not what his lorde doeth. But I haue sayde that ye are frendes: For all that I haue herde of my father, haue I shewed vnto you. ¹⁶ Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordeyned you, that ye go, and bringe forth frute, and that youre frute contynne, that what soeuer ye axe the father in my name, he shulde geue it you. ¹⁷ This I commaunde you, that ye loue one another.

¹ I commende you

¹ Bvt speake thou that which becommeth wholsome learnynge. ² That ye elder men be sober, honest, discrete, sounde in the faith, in loue, in pacience. ³ And the elder wemen likewyse that they shewe them selues as it becommeth holynes, that they be no false accusers, not geuen to moch wyne, that they teach honest thinges, ⁴ that they enfourme the yonge wemen to be sober mynded, to loue their hussbandes, to loue their childre, ⁵ to be discrete, chaste, husswyfly, good, obedient vnto their awne hussbandes, that the worde of God be not euell spoken of. ⁶ Exhorte the yonge men likewyse, that they be sober mynded. ⁷ Aboue all thinge shewe thy selfe an ensample off good workes, with vncorrupte doctryne, with honestye, with the wholsome ⁸ worde which can not be rebuked: that he which withstodeth maye be ashamed, hauynge nothinge in you that he maye disprayse.

³¹ Yf ye contynue in my worde, then are ye my very disciples, ³² and ye shall knowe the trueth, and the trueth shal make you fre.

²³ Then sayde he vnto them all: Yf eny ma wil folowe me, let hi denie himself, & take vp his crosse daylie, & folowe me.

⁴² They contynued in the Apostles doctryne, and in the felashippe, and in breakynge of bred, and in prayer.

² And what thinges thou hast herde of me by many witnesses, the same commytte thou vnto faithfull men, which are apte to teach other.

¹¹ And ye same hath set some to be Apostles, some to be prophetes, some to be Euangelistes, some to be shepherdes & teachers, ¹² wherby the sayntes mighte be coupled together thorow comen seruyce to the edifienge of ye body of Christ, ¹³ tyll we all come vnto one maner of faith and knowlege of the sonne of God, and become a perfecte man in to the measure of the perfecte age of Christ ¹⁴ that we be nomore children, waueringe & caried aboute with euery wynde of doctryne thorow the wickednes of men and craftynes, wherby they laye awayte for vs to disceaue vs. ¹⁵ But let vs folowe the trueth in loue, and in all thinges growe in him, which is the heade, euen Christ, ¹⁶ in whom all the body is coupled together, and one membre hangeth by another thorow out all ye ioyntes. Wherby one mynistreth vnto another (acordinge to the operacion as euery membre hath his measure) and maketh, that ye body groweth to the edifienge of it selfe in loue. ¹⁷ This I saye therfore, and testifye in the LORDE, that ye walke nomore as ye other Heythen walke in the vanite of their mynde,

¹⁴ Ye are the light of the worlde. A cite that is set on an hill, can not be hid: ¹⁵ nether do men lyght a candell, and put it vnder a busshell, but on a candelstick, and it lighteth all that are in the house. ¹⁶ Let youre light so shyne before men, that they maye se youre good workes, and glorify youre father which is in heauen.

²⁷ And whosoeuer beareth not his crosse, and foloweth me, can not be my disciple.

¹⁸ And Iesus came vnto them, talked with them, and sayde: Vnto me is geue all power in heauen and in earth. ¹⁹ Go ye youre waye therfore, and teach all nacions, and baptyse them in the name of the father, and of the sonne, and of the holy goost: ²⁰ and teach them to kepe all thinges, what soeuer I haue commaunded you. And lo, I am with you euery daye vnto the ende of the worlde.