Luke 14:26

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Psalm 139:22

I absolutely hate them, they have become my enemies!

Numbers 10:30

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

Matthew 10:37

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Luke 14:20

Another said, ‘I just got married, and I cannot come.’

Luke 14:25

Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,

John 12:25

The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

Acts 20:24

But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

Romans 9:13

just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Deuteronomy 21:15

Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

Deuteronomy 33:9

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

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – indeed, I regard them as dung! – that I may gain Christ,

Revelation 12:11

But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.