Mat 10:37, 22:37-38, Luk 12:8-9, Rom 6:22, 14:7-9, 1Cor 16:22, Eph 6:24 | ESV | STEP | Whoever 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 .

g[See ver. 8 above]

hSee ver. 18

i 1 Cor. 7:22; 1 Pet. 2:16

j ch. 7:4

k 1 Pet. 1:9

l 2 Cor. 5:15; Gal. 2:20; 1 Pet. 4:2; [1 Cor. 6:19; 1 Thess. 5:10]

m Phil. 1:20

n Rev. 1:18; 2:8

oSee Acts 10:42; Rev. 20:12

pSee Rom. 9:3

r[1 Cor. 16:22]

Matthew 10:37

37 ^aWhoever 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.

Matthew 22:37-38

37 And he said to him, ^b“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment.

Luke 12:8-9

Acknowledge Christ Before Men

8 “And I tell you, ^ceveryone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge ^dbefore the angels of God, 9 but ^ethe one who denies me before men ^fwill be denied ^gbefore the angels of God.

Romans 6:22

22 But now that you ^hhave been set free from sin and ⁱhave become slaves of God, ^jthe fruit you get leads to sanctification and ^kits end, eternal life.

Romans 14:7-9

7 For ^lnone of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, ^mwhether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ ⁿdied and lived again, that he might be Lord both ^oof the dead and of the living.

1 Corinthians 16:22

22 If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be ^paccursed. Our Lord, come! ^{▼▼Greek Maranatha (a transliteration of Aramaic)}

Ephesians 6:24

24 Grace be with all who ^rlove our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.