25+ Bible Verses About Giving Up Everything To Follow God
Luke 14:33 – Give Up Everything to Follow Jesus
So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.
Matthew 10:37 – Love God More Than Family
He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
Mark 8:35 – Lose Your Life to Save It
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Matthew 19:21 – Sell Your Possessions for Heavenly Treasure
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
Philippians 3:7 – Count All Things as Loss
But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – Honor God with Your Body
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Matthew 6:19-21 – Treasure in Heaven
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Mark 12:41-44 – The Widow’s Offering
Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much. Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans. So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury; for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”
Luke 12:33-34 – Sell Your Possessions and Give to the Poor
Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Mark 10:29-30 – Rewards for Giving Up All
So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.”
Acts 20:35 – It Is More Blessed to Give
I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’
Matthew 6:24 – Cannot Serve God and Money
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 5:42 – Give to Those Who Ask
Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.
2 Corinthians 9:6-7 – Cheerful Giver
But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
Proverbs 3:9-10 – Honor the Lord with Your Possessions
Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase; so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Deuteronomy 15:10 – Give Generously and Wholeheartedly
You shall surely give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand.
Proverbs 19:17 – Lending to the Lord
He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will pay back what he has given.
2 Chronicles 31:10 – Abundance in Giving
And Azariah the chief priest, from the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed His people; and what is left is this great abundance.”
Malachi 3:10 – Bring All the Tithes Into the Storehouse
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.”
1 Timothy 6:17-19 – Be Generous and Share
Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
2 Corinthians 8:2-3 – Poverty Overflowed in Rich Generosity
that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality. For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing.
Hebrews 13:16 – Share and Do Good
But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Proverbs 11:24 – Generous Soul Will Prosper
There is one who scatters, yet increases more; and there is one who withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty.
2 Corinthians 9:8 – God’s Grace Enables Giving
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
Matthew 25:35-40 – Whatever You’ve Done for the Least
For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’ Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’
Proverbs 22:9 – Generous Eye, He Will Be Blessed
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
Galatians 6:9-10 – Do Good to All
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Proverbs 28:27 – Gives to the Poor Will Not Lack
He who gives to the poor will not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.
Proverbs 14:31 – Oppressing the Poor Shows Contempt for God
He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the needy.
1 John 3:17-18 – Love in Deed and Truth
But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Proverbs 28:8 – He Who Increases His Possessions by Usury
He who increases his possessions by usury and extortion gathers it for him who will pity the poor.
Proverbs 16:8 – Better is a Little with Righteousness
Better is a little with righteousness, than vast revenues without justice.
Psalm 37:21 – The Righteous Gives Generously
The wicked borrows and does not repay, but the righteous shows mercy and gives.
Matthew 19:21 – Give to the Poor and Follow Jesus
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
James 2:14-17 – Faith Without Works is Dead
What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Proverbs 28:22 – Haste to Be Rich Leads to Poverty
A man with an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not consider that poverty will come upon him.
James 1:27 – Pure and Undefiled Religion
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Proverbs 19:22 – Desire of a Man is Kindness
What is desired in a man is kindness, and a poor man is better than a liar.
Deuteronomy 26:12 – Giving to the Levite, the Foreigner, the Fatherless, and the Widow
When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year—the year of tithing—and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
Proverbs 21:13 – Whoever Shuts His Ears to Cry of Poor
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and not be heard.
Proverbs 22:22-23 – Rob Not the Poor
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, nor oppress the afflicted at the gate; for the Lord will plead their cause and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.
Luke 12:15 – Take Heed and Guard Against Covetousness
And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.”
1 Timothy 6:9-10 – Love of Money is a Root of All Kinds of Evil
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
