Bible verses about "discipleship" | MSTC

²⁴ Jesus then said to his disciples. "If any man will follow me, let him forsake himself, and take up his cross and follow me. ²⁵ For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it. And whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

⁴⁰ The disciple is not above his master. Every man shall be perfect, even as his master is.

²⁶ "If a man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, moreover and his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

³³ So likewise, none of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, can be my disciple.

³⁴ A new commandment give I unto you: that ye love together: as I have loved you, that even so ye love one another. ³⁵ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye shall have love one to another."

¹ I am the true vine, and my father is a husbandman. ² Every branch that beareth not fruit in me, he will take away. And every branch that beareth fruit will he purge, that it may bring more fruit. ³ Now are ye clean, through the words which I have spoken unto you. ⁴ Abide in me, and let me abide in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, and ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me can ye do nothing. ⁶ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered: and men gather it and cast it into the fire, and it burneth. ⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words also abide in you: ask what ye will, and it shall be done to you. ⁸ Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and be made my disciples. ⁹ "AS the father hath loved me, even so have I loved you. Continue in my love. ¹⁰ If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love: even as I have kept my father's commandments, and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ¹² This is my commandment: that ye love together as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love than this hath no man, than that a man bestow his life for his friends. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. ¹⁵ Henceforth, call I you not servants: For the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But you have I called friends: For all things that I have heard of my father, I have opened to you. ¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye go, and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit remain, that whatsoever ye shall ask of the father in my name he should give it you. ¹⁷ This command I you, that ye love together.

¹ Follow me as I do Christ.

¹ But speak thou that which becometh wholesome learning: ² That the elder men be sober, honest, discreet, sound in the faith, in love and in patience. ³ And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things, ⁴ to make the young women soberminded, to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵ to be of discreet, chaste, housewifely, good, and obedient unto their own husbands, that the word of God be not evil spoken of. ⁶ Young men likewise exhort that they be sober minded. ⁷ Above all things, show thyself an example of good works with uncorrupt doctrine, with honesty, ⁸ and with the wholesome word which cannot be rebuked, that he which withstandeth may be ashamed, having no thing in you that he may dispraise.

³¹ Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, "If ye continue in my words, then are ye my very disciples: ³² and ye shall know the truth: And the truth shall make you free."

²³ And he said to them all, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross on him daily, and follow me.

⁴² And they continued in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayer.

² And what things thou hast heard of me, many bearing witness, the same deliver to faithful men, which are apt to teach others.

¹¹ And the very same, made some Apostles, some Prophets, some Evangelists, some Shepherds, some Teachers: ¹² that the saints might have all things necessary to work and minister withal, to the edifying of the body of Christ, ¹³ till we, everyone — in the unity of faith, and knowledge of the son of God — grow up unto a perfect man, after the measure of age which is of the fullness of Christ: ¹⁴ That we henceforth be no more children, wavering and carried with every wind of doctrine, by the wiliness of men and craftiness, whereby they lay a wait for us to deceive us. ¹⁵ But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow in him which is the head, that is to say Christ, ¹⁶ in whom all the body is coupled and knit together, in every joint, wherewith one ministereth to another — according to the operation as every part hath his measure — and increaseth the body, unto the edifying of itself in love. ¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk; in vanity of their mind,

¹⁴ Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill, cannot be hid, ¹⁵ neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it lighteth all them that are in the house. ¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.

²⁷ And whosoever bear not his cross, and come after me cannot be my disciple.

¹⁸ And Jesus came, and spake unto them, saying, "All power is given unto me in heaven, and in earth. ¹⁹ Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the holy ghost; ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I commanded you. And lo, I am with you always even until the end of the world."