Renunciation

The deliberate rejection or disavowal, especially of a person or object.

Renunciation of the LORD

Judges 2:12; Isaiah 1:28; Acts 3:13 See also Exodus 32:8; Joshua 22:16; 2 Kings 22:17; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Jeremiah 5:19; Matthew 24:10; 2 Timothy 2:12

Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,

But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.

Renunciation of evil

In repentance

Psalm 37:27 See also Jeremiah 35:15; Ezekiel 14:6; Daniel 4:27; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Timothy 6:20

Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.

To find God's mercy

2 Chronicles 7:14 See also Proverbs 28:13; Ezekiel 18:21; Jonah 3:10

and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Self-renunciation and the Christian life

An integral part of discipleship

Matthew 16:24 parallels Mark 8:34, Luke 9:23 See also Mark 10:28; Luke 5:28, Luke 14:33; Philippians 3:8

Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

The example of Jesus Christ

Mark 10:45 See also John 10:17; Philippians 2:7–8

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