So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.
For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.