When you consecrate yourself to the Lord, your old nature is put to death, and you live in the Spirit.

“For every grain offering for the priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.” (Lev 6:23)

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me” (Gal 2:20)

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies [oiktirmos] of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” (Rom 12:1)

“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.” (Rom 8:5)

“For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” (Rom 8:13)

“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh…If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” (Gal 5:16,25)

“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” (Rom 13:14)

“For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” (Gal 3:27)

“And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.” (Matt 10:38)

“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Matt 16:24)

“Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Mk 8:34)

“come, take up the cross, and follow Me.” (Mk 10:21)

“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” (Lk 9:23)

“And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.” (Lk 14:27)

“Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Rom 6:4)

“Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him” (Col 3:9-10)

“if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” (Eph 4:21-24)

Reading: Lev 4-6; Jn 18