Bible Verses About Sacrifices and Hardship
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sacrifices and hardship, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,132 votes, led by Romans 12:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sacrifices and Hardship
Romans 12:1202 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Hebrews 13:15-16155 votes
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
1 Peter 4:12-13124 votes
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1 Peter 2:5106 votes
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:3105 votes
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
James 1:2-4105 votes
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Philippians 2:1783 votes
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
Mark 8:34-3568 votes
And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
1 Peter 1:6-766 votes
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Romans 5:3-564 votes
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Philippians 4:1855 votes
But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
Psalms 51:16-1752 votes
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
1 Samuel 15:2244 votes
And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
2 Corinthians 12:1044 votes
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Acts 20:3542 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Philippians 3:7-841 votes
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
James 1:1240 votes
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Hebrews 11:17-1937 votes
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
Hebrews 11:24-2636 votes
By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
Hebrews 11:25-2632 votes
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Hebrews 12:1-232 votes
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Psalms 51:1728 votes
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Matthew 16:24-2528 votes
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Hebrews 10:32-3428 votes
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
Hebrews 9:2626 votes
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
What does the Bible say about sacrifices and hardship?
Readers most often cite Romans 12:1 on the subject of sacrifices and hardship. Across 2,132 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:15-16, 1 Peter 4:12-13, 1 Peter 2:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.