Bible verses about "discipleship" | JuliaSmith

²⁴ Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any wish to come after me, let him deny himself absolutely, and lift up his cross, and follow me. ²⁵ For whoever should wish to save his life shall lose it: and whoever shall lose his soul for my sake shall find it.

³⁴ A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another. ³⁵ In this all shall know that ye are disciples to me, if ye have love in one another.

⁴⁰ For the learner is not above his teacher: and every one set in order shall be as his teacher.

¹ I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ² Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit. ³ Already are ye clean, through the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me. ⁵ I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. ⁶ If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you. ⁸ In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me. ⁹ As the Father loved me, I also loved you: remain in my love. ¹⁰ If ye keep my commands, ye shall remain in my love; as I have kept my Father's commands, and remain in his love. ¹¹ These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be completed. ¹² This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you. ¹³ Greater love than this has none, that any lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ I no more call you servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: and I have called you friends; for all which I heard of my Father I made known to you. ¹⁶ Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that ye love one another.

²⁶ If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

³³ So then, every one of you, who renounces not all of his possessions, cannot be my disciple.

¹ Be ye imitators of me, as I also of Christ.

¹ And do thou speak what becomes sound doctrine: ² The aged men to be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in the faith, in love, in patience. ³ The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good; ⁴ That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children, ⁵ Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed. ⁶ The younger men likewise beseech to be of sound mind. ⁷ Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility, ⁸ The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.

³¹ Then said Jesus to the Jews having believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples. ³² And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

²³ And he said to all, If any one wish to come after me, let him deny himself, and lift up his cross daily and let him follow me.

⁴² And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers.

² And what thou hast heard from me by many witnesses, these things lay by for faithful men, who will be sufficient to teach others also.

¹¹ And truly he gave the sent; and the prophets; and the bearers of good tidings; and the shepherds, and the teachers; ¹² For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ: ¹³ Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ. ¹⁴ That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit; ¹⁵ And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ: ¹⁶ From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love. ¹⁷ Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,

¹⁴ Ye are the light of the world. A city cannot be hid, set on a mountain. ¹⁵ Neither do they burn a light, and set it under a basket, but upon a chandelier: and it shines to all in the house. ¹⁶ So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.

²⁷ And whoever lifts not his cross, and comes after me, cannot be my disciple.

¹⁸ And Jesus, having come near, spake to them, saying, All power has been given me in heaven and upon earth: ¹⁹ Therefore, having gone, disciple all nations; immersing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: ²⁰ Teaching them to keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen.