Luke 14:26

World English Bible (2000)

"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

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  • Matt 10:37 : 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.
  • John 12:25 : 25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
  • Phil 3:8 : 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
  • Rev 12:11 : 11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
  • Ps 73:25-26 : 25 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you. 26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
  • Deut 33:9 : 9 who said of his father, and of his mother, 'I have not seen him;' Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he know his own children: For they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.
  • Gen 29:30-31 : 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
  • Eccl 2:17-19 : 17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. 18 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. 19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
  • Mal 1:2-3 : 2 "I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob; 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
  • Rom 9:13 : 13 Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

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    27Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.

  • Luke 14:25
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    25Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

  • Matt 10:33-39
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    33But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

    34"Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn't come to send peace, but a sword.

    35For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

    36A man's foes will be those of his own household.

    37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

    38He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me.

    39He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

  • Luke 14:33
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    33So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.

  • Matt 16:24-25
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    24Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

    25For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

  • Mark 10:29-30
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    29Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

    30but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

  • Mark 8:34-35
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    34He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

    35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

  • John 12:25-26
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    25He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

    26If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

  • Luke 9:23-24
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    23He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

    24For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

  • Luke 18:29
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    29He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

  • Matt 19:29
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    29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

  • John 15:23
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    23He who hates me, hates my Father also.

  • Matt 12:48-50
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    48But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"

    49He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

    50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."

  • Mark 13:12-13
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    12"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

    13You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

  • Matt 10:21-22
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    21"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

    22You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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    24He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • Luke 12:52-53
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    52For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

    53They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

  • Luke 21:16-17
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    16You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

    17You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.

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    13No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."

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    24"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

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    21Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."

  • Mark 3:33-35
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    33He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

    34Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

    35For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."

  • Luke 11:23
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    23"He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn't gather with me scatters.

  • Matt 12:30
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    30"He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn't gather with me, scatters.

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    21But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it."

  • John 15:18
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    18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

  • John 13:35
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    35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

  • Matt 19:10
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    6For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

  • Luke 9:59
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    59He said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."

  • Luke 14:20
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    20"Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'