Luke 18:28

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

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

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

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

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

They immediately left their nets and followed him.

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

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;

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

When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

“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.

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.

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?”

Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.

My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;

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.

Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.”

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

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

He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”

Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.

He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot;

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

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.”

that no flesh should boast before God.

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

“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.

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.