Luke 14:26-28
14:26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate
his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple.
14:27 Whoever does not carry his own cross
and follow
me cannot be my disciple.
14:28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down
first and compute the cost
to see if he has enough money to complete it?
Deuteronomy 33:9
33:9 He said to his father and mother, “I have not seen him,”
and he did not acknowledge his own brothers
or know his own children,
for they kept your word,
and guarded your covenant.
Matthew 10:37-39
10:37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
10:38 And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
10:39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.
Matthew 19:28-30
19:28 Jesus
said to them, “I tell you the truth:
In the age when all things are renewed,
when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging
the twelve tribes of Israel.
19:29 And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much
and will inherit eternal life.
19:30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
Mark 10:29-31
10:29 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth,
there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel
10:30 who will not receive in this age
a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions
– and in the age to come, eternal life.
10:31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”