Bible Verses about Sacrifice

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• No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
  John 15:13lovefriendship
• And live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
  Ephesians 5:2loveJesus
• So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
  Hebrews 9:28sinsalvation
• For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it.
  Luke 9:24life
• To do righteousness and justice
  is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
  Proverbs 21:3honestyrighteousness
• Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.
  Matthew 9:13mercyrighteousnessrepentance
• For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures.
  1 Corinthians 15:3-4sinJesusresurrection
• He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.
  Titus 2:14purificationgoodnesssin
• For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  Mark 10:45humilityJesussalvation
• They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
  Matthew 27:28-29sufferingeaster
• He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else?
  Romans 8:32Fatherreceiving
• Honor the Lord with your substance
  and with the first fruits of all your produce.
  Proverbs 3:9moneygivingharvest
• For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
  Romans 5:6Jesustransformation
• But I with the voice of thanksgiving
  will sacrifice to you;
  what I have vowed I will pay.
  Deliverance belongs to the Lord!
  Jonah 2:9salvationgratitudeobedience
• No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
  Romans 6:13sinrighteousnessconversion
• Just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  Matthew 20:28Jesusservingsalvation
• How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!
  Hebrews 9:14JesusSpiritpurification
• But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
  1 John 1:7purificationcommunitylight
• The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;
  a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
  Psalm 51:17repentance
• Abba, Father, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me; yet, not what I want, but what you want.
  Mark 14:36easterFatherJesus
• Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last.
  Luke 23:46easterJesusFather
• See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified; and on the third day he will be raised.
  Matthew 20:18-19easterJesusresurrection
• And ‘to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love one's neighbor as oneself,’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
  Mark 12:33heartmindstrength