The person who loves his father and mother more than me does not deserve me [i.e., to be my disciple]. And the person who loves his son or daughter more than me does not deserve me [i.e., to be my disciple].
Acts 7:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) and told him, ‘Leave your country and relatives and go to the country where I will lead you.’ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And He said to him, Leave your own country and your relatives and come into the land (region) that I will point out to you. [Gen. 12:1.] American Standard Version (1901) and said unto him, Get thee out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. Common English Bible God told him, ‘Leave your homeland and kin, and go to the land that I will show you.’ Catholic Public Domain Version And God said to him, 'Depart from your country and from your kindred, and go into the land that I will show to you.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And said to him: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. |
The person who loves his father and mother more than me does not deserve me [i.e., to be my disciple]. And the person who loves his son or daughter more than me does not deserve me [i.e., to be my disciple].
So therefore, every one of you who does not say ‘goodbye’ to everything he owns cannot be my disciple.
“So, he left Chaldea [i.e., Mesopotamia], and lived in Haran, and after his father died he was sent [by God] to this country where you people now live.
Therefore, the Lord says [Isa. 52:11], “You people should leave their company [i.e., unbelievers, verse 14] and separate yourselves from them, and do not touch anything unclean [i.e., their evil practices], and I will welcome you.”
By [having] faith, when Abraham was called [by God] to leave [his homeland] and go to a place he would later receive as an inheritance [i.e., Palestine], he obeyed God and went out, not knowing where he was going.