Luke 14:26

New Living Translation

“If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.

Cross References

Psalm 139:22

Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.

Numbers 10:30

But Hobab replied, “No, I will not go. I must return to my own land and family.”

Matthew 10:37

“If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.

Luke 14:20

Another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’

Luke 14:25

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

John 12:25

Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity.

Acts 20:24

But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.

Romans 9:13

In the words of the Scriptures, “I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau.”

Deuteronomy 21:15

“Suppose a man has two wives, but he loves one and not the other, and both have given him sons. And suppose the firstborn son is the son of the wife he does not love.

Deuteronomy 33:9

The Levites obeyed your word and guarded your covenant. They were more loyal to you than to their own parents. They ignored their relatives and did not acknowledge their own children.

Philippians 3:8

Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ

Revelation 12:11

And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony. And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.