Matthew 10:37

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He 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.

That loveth father

Philippians 3:7

Not

Revelation 3:4

General references

Bible References

That loveth father

And he said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding.

Who said to his father and to his mother, I see him not, And he acknowledged not his brethren, And knew not his own children; For they have observed thy word, And kept thy covenant.

If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who honours not the Son, honours not the Father who has sent him.

When therefore they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.

For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.

Not

Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy;

but they who are counted worthy to have part in that world, and the resurrection from among the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

Watch therefore, praying at every season, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;

But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

General references

And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up and went to the place that God had told him of.

And they, having left their trawl-nets, immediately followed him.

for I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me not to drink;

If ye love me, keep my commandments.