25Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,
26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters— yes, even his own life — he cannot be My disciple.
27And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
— Luke 14:25-27

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