He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me:
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;
He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.
From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."
Then he said to his servants, 'The marriage-banquet is all ready, but the invited guests did not deserve it.
that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)
but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married,
Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to.