Genesis 21:11

“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.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today.”

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

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

and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.

but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

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.

That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.

They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.

Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’

As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”

The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”

He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

They immediately left their nets and followed him.

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.

All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.