Bible verses about "discipleship" | Living_Oracles

²⁴ Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any man will come under my guidance, let him renounce himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁵ For, whosoever would save his life, shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

³⁴ A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; that as I have loved you, you also love one another. ³⁵ By this shall all men know, that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.

⁴⁰ The disciple is not above his teacher; but every finished disciple shall be as his teacher.

¹ I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser. ² Every barren branch in me, he lops off; every fruitful branch he cleans by pruning, to render it more fruitful. ³ As for you, you are already clean, through the instructions I have given you. ⁴ Abide in me, and I will abide in you; as the branch can not bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in me, and in whom I abide, produces much fruit; for, severed from me, you can do nothing. ⁶ If any man abide not in me, he is cast forth like withered branches, which are gathered for fuel, and burnt. ⁷ If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you may ask what you will, and it shall be granted you. ⁸ In this is my Father glorified, that you produce much fruit; so shall you be my disciples. ⁹ As the Father loves me, so do I love you: continue in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you shall continue in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and continue in his love. ¹¹ I give you these admonitions, that I may continue to have joy in you, and that your joy may be complete. ¹² This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I love you. ¹³ No man has greater love than this, to lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his master will do: but I name you friends; for whatever I have learned from my Father, I impart to you. ¹⁶ It is not you who have chosen me; but it is I who have chosen you, and ordained you to go and bear fruit: fruit which will prove permanent, that the Father may give you whatsoever you shall ask him in my name. ¹⁷ This I command you, that you love one another.

²⁶ If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters; nay, and himself, too; he can not be my disciple.

³³ So then, whosoever he be of you, who does not renounce all that he has, he can not be my disciple.

¹ Become imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

¹ But do you inculcate the things which become wholesome doctrine: ² that aged men be vigilant, grave, prudent, healthy by faith, love, patience. ³ That aged women, in like manner, be in deportment as becomes sacred persons-not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, good teachers; ⁴ that they may persuade the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children- ⁵ to be calm, chaste, careful of their families, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be defamed. ⁶ The young men, in like manner, exhort to govern their passions. ⁷ In all things make yourself a pattern of good works: in teaching, show incorruptness, gravity, ⁸ wholesome speech which can not be condemned; that he who is on the opposite side may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say concerning you.

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said to those Jews who believed on him, If you persevere in my doctrine, you are my disciples indeed. ³² And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.

⁴² And they continued steadfast in the teaching, in the fellowship, in the breaking of the load, and in the prayers of the Apostles.

²³ Moreover, he said to all the people, If any man will come under my guidance, let him renounce himself, and take his cross daily, and follow me.

² And what things you have heard from me by many witnesses, these commit in trust to faithful men, who shall be fit also to teach others.

¹¹ And he gave some, indeed, Apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; ¹² for the adapting of these saints to the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ: ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God; to a perfect man; to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: ¹⁴ that we may be no longer children, tossed and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sight of men, and by cunning craftiness for an artifice of seduction: ¹⁵ but speaking the truth in love, we may all grow into him, who is the Head, even Christ; ¹⁶ from whom, the whole body, fitly joined together, and compacted by the service of every joint, according to the energy, in the proportion of each particular part, effects the increase of the body, for the edification of itself in love. ¹⁷ This, therefore, I say, and testify in the Lord, that you walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind;

¹⁴ You are the light of the world. A city situate on a mountain must be conspicuous. ¹⁵ A lamp is lighted to be put, not under a vessel, but on a stand, that it may shine to all the family. ¹⁶ Thus, let your light shine before men, that they, seeing your good actions, may glorify your Father, who is in heaven.

²⁷ And whosoever does not follow me, carrying his cross, can not be my disciple.

¹⁸ Jesus came near, and said to them, All authority is given to me in heaven and upon the earth; ¹⁹ go, convert all the nations, immersing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; ²⁰ teaching them to observe all the things which I have commanded you: and behold, I am with you always, even to the conclusion of this state.