Matthew 8:21
And another of his disciples said to 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 he separateth himself to the LORD, he shall come at no dead body.
Deuteronomy 33:9-10
Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor know 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 then I will follow thee. And he said to him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
Haggai 1:2
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.
Matthew 19:29
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 a hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Luke 9:59-62
And he said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
2 Corinthians 5:16
Wherefore henceforth we know no man according to the flesh: though indeed we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now henceforth we know him no more.