Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

For I have come to set a man 'against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's enemies will be those of his own household.' read more. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes.

and he said, "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

"Thus the Lord has done to me, in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people."

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants."'

When a woman is in labor she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but as soon as she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child has been born into the world.