Luke 14:26

Modern English Version

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

Cross References

Psalm 139:22

I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

Numbers 10:30

Hobab said to him, “I will not go. But I will depart to my own land, and to my kindred.”

Matthew 10:37

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Luke 14:20

“Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’

Luke 14:25

Large crowds went with Him. And He turned and said to them,

John 12:25

He who loves his life will lose it. And he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Acts 20:24

But none of these things deter me. Nor do I count my life of value to myself, so that I may joyfully finish my course and the ministry which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Romans 9:13

As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”

Deuteronomy 21:15

If a man has two wives, one beloved and another unloved, and both have borne him children, both the loved one and the unloved one, and if the firstborn son is hers that is unloved,

Deuteronomy 33:9

who said to his father and to his mother, “I have not seen him,” and he did not acknowledge his brothers or know his own children, for they have kept Your word and guarded Your covenant.

Philippians 3:8

Yes, certainly, I count everything as loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have forfeited the loss of all things and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ,

Revelation 12:11

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death.