Matthew 8:21
But another of his disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to go away and bury my father.
Leviticus 21:11-12
Neither shall he come near any person dead, nor make himself unclean for his father and for his mother;
Numbers 6:6-7
All the days that he hath consecrated himself to Jehovah, he shall come near no dead body.
Deuteronomy 33:9-10
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.
1 Kings 19:20-21
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and I will follow thee. And he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to thee?
Haggai 1:2
Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that Jehovah's house should be built.
Matthew 19:29
And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.
Luke 9:59-62
And he said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, allow me to go first and bury my father.
2 Corinthians 5:16
So that we henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer.