Luke 14:26
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
25And there went great multitudes with him. And turning, he said to them:
27And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Cross References
Genesis 29:30And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.
Deuteronomy 13:6If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,
Deuteronomy 33:9Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,
Psalms 73:25For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
Ecclesiastes 2:17And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.
Matthew 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.
Matthew Henry on Luke 14:26-35
The Necessity of Self-denial. 25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after… Read the whole commentary →