Luke 14:26

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

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.

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

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

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

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

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

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

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?”

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

“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.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

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.

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

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

Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

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.

He said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’ ”

He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother.

He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”

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.

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?’

I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

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.

but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”