For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of Me shall find it.

So Jesus answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for My sake and for the sake of the gospel,

who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life.

So He said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life."

But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

Then another of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."

But Jesus said to him, "Follow Me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

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.

Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know [Him thus] no longer.

More than that I also consider all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have sustained the loss of all things, and I consider them to be rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

"Blessed are you whenever they revile you, and they persecute you, and they say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.

And you will be hated by all [people] for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you, and shall revile you, and cast out your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

For I will show him all the things that he must suffer for My name's sake."

If you are reviled in the name of Christ, blessed are you, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On the one hand He is blasphemed, but on the other He is glorified.

for on behalf of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the pagans.

But others fell on good ground and it was yielding fruit: some a hundred[fold], some sixty, some thirty.

But the [seed] sown on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundred[fold], some sixty, some thirty."

And behold, one came and said to Him, "Good Teacher, what good [thing] shall I do that I may have eternal life?"

Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

"And these shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."