“If anyone comes to me and doesn’t hate their own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
Jesus said, “I tell y’all, there is no one who has left house or brother or sister or father or mother or wife or children or land for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,
From now on, we don’t view anyone from a fleshly perspective. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, but now we no longer know him that way.
Elisha left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”
He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.