So then, everyone of you who does not forsake all his possessions, he cannot be My disciple.
And leaving all, he rose up and followed Him.
If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
And bringing their boats onto land, forsaking all things, they followed Him.
For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.
esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.