Matthew 19:29

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

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Or brethren

Philippians 3:8

My

3 John 1:7

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Matthew 13:8

General references

Luke 22:28

Bible References

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For whoever wants to save his higher life will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will find the higher life.

Jesus said, "I solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farm for me and for the good news,

So He said to them, "I solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the kingdom of God,

But, as the Scripture says, they are: "Things which eye has never seen and ear has never heard, and never have occurred to human hearts, which God prepared for those who love Him."

Or brethren

Another of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, let me first go back and bury my father."

Anybody who loves father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me,

"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.

So from this moment on, I do not estimate anybody by the standard of outward appearances. Although I once did estimate Christ by this standard, I do not do so any longer.

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

My

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.

And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.

For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."

If you are suffering abuse because you bear the name of Christ, you are happy, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.

For they have started out for His name's sake and so accept nothing from the heathen,

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And some fell in rich soil, and yielded a crop, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty-fold.

General references

Yet you have continued to stand by me in my trials;