Joe 2:12-14, Zec 13:3, Mat 10:37 | ESV | STEP | Yet even now , declares the Lord , return to me with all your heart , with fasting , with weeping , and with mourning ;

Joel 2:12-14

Return to the Lord

12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
^a“return to me with all your heart,
^bwith fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13 and ^crend your hearts and not ^dyour garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
^efor he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
^fand he relents over disaster.
14 ^gWho knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and ^hleave a blessing behind him,
ⁱa grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?

Zechariah 13:3

3 And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ^j‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

Matthew 10:37

37 ^kWhoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.