Luke 14:26
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Matthew 10:37
Anybody who loves father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me,
John 12:25
Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.
Acts 20:24
But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.
Philippians 3:8
Yes, indeed, I certainly do count everything as loss compared with the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have lost everything, and value it all as mere refuse, in order to gain Christ
Revelation 12:11
But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the message to which they bore testimony, because they did not cling to life but courted death.
Romans 9:13
As the Scripture says, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."