Bible verses about "discipleship" | Riverside

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If any one chooses to come after me, let him disown self and take up his cross and follow me. ²⁵ For whoever chooses to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

³⁴ A new command I give you, to love one another, as I have loved you — that so you love one another. ³⁵ By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love to one another."

⁴⁰ A scholar is not superior to his teacher. Every scholar when finished will be like his teacher.

¹ "I AM the true Vine and my Father is the Vine-grower. ² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every one that bears fruit he cleanses, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already clean through the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him — he bears much fruit; but without me you cannot do anything. ⁶ If any one does not abide in me, he is cast out like a branch and withers, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask what you will and it will be done for you. ⁸ By this is my Father glorified — by your bearing much fruit and becoming my disciples. ⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will abide in my love as I have kept my Father's commands and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you and your joy may be made complete. ¹² This is my command — to love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I call you friends, for all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. ¹⁷ These things I am commanding you that you may love one another.

²⁶ "If any one comes to me and does not hate his father and his mother and his wife and his children and his brothers and his sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

³³ Just so no one of you who does not renounce all that he has can be a disciple of mine.

¹ IMITATE me as I imitate Christ.

¹ YOU must speak to them of the matters which should have a place in wholesome teaching. ² Tell the older men to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, in patience. ³ Tell the older women, in the same way, to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is noble, ⁴ that they may train the young women to be loving wives and loving mothers, ⁵ self-controlled, pure, home-workers, kind, submissive to their own husbands, that God's message may not be slandered. ⁶ Urge the younger men, in the same way, to practice self-control in everything. ⁷ Make yourself an example of good works, sincerity in teaching, dignified behavior ⁸ and wholesome talk that is above censure, that our opponents may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say about us.

³¹ Jesus said to the Jews that had believed him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³² and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free."

⁴² These gave constant attention to the teaching of the apostles and to the fellowship and the breaking of bread and the prayers.

²³ He said to all: "If any one chooses to come after me, let him disown himself and take up his cross every day and follow me.

² and the things you heard from me, which came through many witnesses, you must commit to trustworthy men who will be able to teach others also.

¹¹ And he "gave" to some to be apostles, some prophets, some tellers of the good news, some shepherds and teachers, ¹² for the equipment of the saints, for the work of service, for building up the body of Christ, ¹³ until we all attain oneness in the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, and the maturity of manhood and the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. ¹⁴ Then we shall be no longer children tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching through the trickery of men and craftiness in the devices of deceit, ¹⁵ but speaking the truth in love we shall grow wholly into him who is the head, Christ, ¹⁶ from whom the whole body framed together and strengthened by what every joint supplies vigorously, in the measure of each, makes growth in building itself up in love. ¹⁷ This then I say and solemnly protest in the Lord: that you are no longer to live as the Gentiles live in vacancy of mind,

¹⁴ You are the light of the world. A city cannot be hidden if set on a hill. ¹⁵ People do not light a lamp and put it under a peck-measure, but on the stand, and it gives light for all in the house. ¹⁶ So let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

²⁷ Whoever does not take up his own cross and come after me cannot be a disciple of mine.

¹⁸ Jesus came to them and talked with them. He said, "To me has been given all authority in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to keep all the commands that I have given you. And, behold, I am with you all the days to the end of the world."