Top 30 Bible Verses about Sacrifice for Others

Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day, continually.

If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD.

You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart—these, O God, You will not despise.

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

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.’

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

And He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us, and we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

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.

If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noon day.

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.’

And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.

But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind.

Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.

That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman; part of the becoming includes the sacrifices made for the freedom and progress of all.