Dead to Self, Alive to the Divine

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Matthew 10:39 He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

Luke 9:23 He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. . . .”

Luke 14:26 If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

John 12:25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

Romans 6:4,6 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life . . . knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Romans 8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

1 Corinthians 15:31 . . . I die daily.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15  . . . because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20  . . . You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. . . .

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. . . .

Galatians 5:24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Galatians 6:14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 4:22 That you put away , as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit

Philippians 3:13  . . . Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before

Colossians 2:11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ

Colossians 3:3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Colossians 3:5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry

Colossians 3:8-10 But now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth. Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator

(Emphasis mine.)

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