Luk 14:26-35, Joh 9:22, 12:42, 19:38, 2Pe 2:20-22 | ESV | STEP | If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters , yes , and even his own life , he cannot be my disciple .

Luke 14:26-35

26 ^a“If anyone comes to me and ^bdoes not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, ^cyes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 ^dWhoever does not ^ebear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not ^ffirst sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not ^gsit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 ^hSo therefore, any one of you who ⁱdoes not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Salt Without Taste Is Worthless

34 ^j“Salt is good, ^kbut if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? 35 It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. ^lHe who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

John 9:22

22 (His parents said these things ^mbecause they feared the Jews, for ⁿthe Jews had already agreed that if anyone should ^oconfess Jesus ^{▼▼Greek him} to be Christ, ^qhe was to be put out of the synagogue.)

John 12:42

42 Nevertheless, ^rmany even of the authorities believed in him, but ^sfor fear of the Pharisees they did not ^tconfess it, so that they would not be ^uput out of the synagogue;

John 19:38

Jesus Is Buried

38 ^vAfter these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly ^wfor fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.

2 Peter 2:20-22

20 For if, ^xafter they have escaped the defilements of the world ^ythrough the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, ^zthe last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For ^aait would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from ^abthe holy commandment delivered to them. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The ^acdog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”