This agrees with the other Scripture which says, »Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.«
Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
»Have you not read even this passage,« He added, »`The stone which the builders rejected has become the Cornerstone:
»If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.«
He who holds his life dear, is destroying it; and he who makes his life of no account in this world shall keep it to the Life of the Ages.