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 Jesus said to him, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding --

Who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him; And his brethren he hath not discerned, And his sons he hath not known; For they have observed Thy saying, And Thy covenant they keep.

'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Feed my lambs.'

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

Not

then saith he to his servants, The marriage-feast indeed is ready, and those called were not worthy,

but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;

watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,

Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

General references

And Abraham riseth early in the morning, and saddleth his ass, and taketh two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and he cleaveth the wood of the burnt-offering, and riseth and goeth unto the place of which God hath spoken to him.

and they, immediately, having left the nets, did follow him.

for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink;

'If ye love me, my commands keep,