Matthew 10:37

A Conservative Version

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

Cross References

Luke 14:26

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Matthew 22:37

And Jesus said to him, Thou shall love Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.

Deuteronomy 33:9

who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew he his own sons, for they have observed thy word, and keep thy covenant.

Luke 21:36

Watch ye therefore, making supplication at all times, so that ye may be considered worthy to escape all these things going to happen, and to stand before the Son of man.

Matthew 22:8

Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding is indeed ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

John 5:23

so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

Luke 20:35

but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

Revelation 3:4

But thou have a few names in Sardis who did not defile their garments. And they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

1 Samuel 2:29

Why do ye kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?

Zechariah 13:3

And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother who begot him shall say to him, Thou shall not live, for thou speak lies in the name of LORD. And his father and his mother who begot him s

Genesis 21:11

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.