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Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

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Luke 14:27
Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

Matthew 10:38
He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me.

Matthew 10:39
He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

John 12:25
He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

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Deuteronomy 33:9
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.

2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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Romans 9:13
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Genesis 29:31
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

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