³⁰ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

^37 (A)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. ³⁸ And ^(B)whoever does not take his cross and ^(C)follow me is not worthy of me. ^39 (D)Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

³³ But ^(A)seek first ^(B)the kingdom of God and his righteousness, ^(C)and all these things will be added to you.

^3 (A)“You shall have no other gods before^[a] me.

⁸ Indeed, I count everything as loss because of ^(A)the surpassing worth of ^(B)knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I ^(C)have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ