Jesus said to him, " 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

Who says to his father and mother, I have not seen you; and he knew not his brethren, and he refused to know his sons; he kept Your oracles, and observed Your covenant.

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

so that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I care for You." He said to him, "Feed My lambs."

He said to him the third time, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you care for Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you care for Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I care for You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.

For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this: that if One died for all, then all died;

and He died for all, so that they who live should live no longer for themselves, but for the [One] who died for them and rose again.

But such things as were gain to me, these I have considered loss for the sake of Christ.

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through [the] faith of Christ, the righteousness [which is] from God by faith;

Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding indeed is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

But those who have been counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

Watch therefore, praying always that you may be counted worthy to escape everything that is about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

[which is] evidence of the righteous judgment of God, so that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, on behalf of which you also suffer;

and to give you who are being afflicted rest along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty angels,

You have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, because they are worthy.