Luke 14:26

Free Bible Version

“If you want to follow me but you don't hate your father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters—even your own life—you can't be my disciple.

Cross References

Psalm 139:22

I hate them with absolute hatred—they have become my enemies!

Numbers 10:30

“No, I won't go—I'll return to my own country and my own people,” Hobab replied.

Matthew 10:37

If you love your father or mother more than me you don't deserve to be mine, and if you love your son or daughter more than me you don't deserve to be mine.

Luke 14:20

‘I've just got married, so I can't come.’

Luke 14:25

A large crowd was accompanying Jesus. He turned to them and said,

John 12:25

If you love your own life you will lose it, but if you don't love your own life in this world you will keep your life forever.

Acts 20:24

But I don't consider my life as worth anything to me. I only want to finish my mission and the ministry that the Lord Jesus gave to me, to witness to the good news of the grace of God.

Romans 9:13

As Scripture says, “I chose Jacob, but rejected Esau.”

Deuteronomy 21:15

If a man has two wives, one he loves and one he doesn't, and both have sons by him, but the firstborn son is from the wife he doesn't love,

Deuteronomy 33:9

Levi said that he didn't pay attention to his father and mother, that he didn't acknowledge his brothers, and that he didn't recognize his children. The Levites did what you said and kept your agreement.

Philippians 3:8

Truly, I count everything as loss in exchange for the incredible benefit I've gained through knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I've thrown away all these things for him, and consider them trash, so that I might gain Christ.

Revelation 12:11

They conquered him through the blood of the Lamb and through their personal testimony—they did not love their lives so much that they were willing to die if necessary.