Matthew 8:21
Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."
Leviticus 21:11-12
He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.
Numbers 6:6-7
"All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.
Deuteronomy 33:9-10
who said of his father and mother, 'I regard them not'; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.
1 Kings 19:20-21
And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?"
Haggai 1:2
"Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD."
Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
Luke 9:59-62
To another he said, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."
2 Corinthians 5:16
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.