Matthew 8:21
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Leviticus 21:11-12
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or for his mother;
Numbers 6:6-7
All the days that they separate themselves unto the LORD they shall come in unto no dead body.
Deuteronomy 33:9-10
who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen them; neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor know his own children; therefore, they shall keep thy word and guard thy covenant.
1 Kings 19:20-21
So he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again, for what have I done to thee?
Haggai 1:2
Thus speaketh the LORD of the hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not yet come, the time to build the house of the LORD.
Matthew 19:29
And every one that has forsaken houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life.
Luke 9:59-62
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.
2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore from now on we know no one according to the flesh: and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no longer.