3 Bible Verses About Sacrifice for Others

Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

Judges 5:18KJV

(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

Judges 9:17KJV

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

2 Samuel 21:17KJV

Let the echo of these sacred words resonate within the soul. They speak not of simple obligation, but of the very essence of the Christian calling: a radical surrender of the self for the welfare of the other. To absorb their truth is to confront the profound demand of love, which finds its purest expression not in comfortable sentiment, but in costly action, in the deliberate expenditure of life's energy, comfort, and possessions for the sake of a brother or sister. This is the path walked by the Master, and the one to which His followers are eternally summoned. May the reflection upon these passages stir within us the courage and grace to undertake this blessed, transformative burden, seeing in the need of the other a privileged opportunity to mirror the boundless generosity of God Himself.