Psalm 45:10
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10 Listen, O daughter,
Consider and incline your ear;
(A)Forget your own people also, and your father’s house;
Genesis 12:1
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Promises to Abram(A)
12 Now the (B)Lord had said to Abram:
“Get (C)out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
Matthew 19:29
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29 (A)And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother [a]or wife or children or [b]lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.
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- Matthew 19:29 NU omits or wife
- Matthew 19:29 Lit. fields
Matthew 10:37
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37 (A)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.
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2 Corinthians 6:17-7:1
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17 Therefore
(A)“Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”
18 “I (B)will be a Father to you,
And you shall be My (C)sons and daughters,
Says the Lord Almighty.”
The Corinthians’ Repentance
7 Therefore,(D) having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Deuteronomy 21:13
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13 She shall put off the clothes of her captivity, remain in your house, and (A)mourn her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
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2 Corinthians 5:16
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16 (A)Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, (B)yet now we know Him thus no longer.
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Luke 14:26
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26 (A)“If anyone comes to Me (B)and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, (C)yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
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Genesis 2:24
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24 (A)Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and (B)be[a] joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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- Genesis 2:24 Lit. cling
Deuteronomy 33:9
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9 (A)Who says of his father and mother,
‘I have not (B)seen them’;
(C)Nor did he acknowledge his brothers,
Or know his own children;
For (D)they have observed Your word
And kept Your covenant.
Isaiah 55:1-3
New King James Version
An Invitation to Abundant Life
55 “Ho! (A)Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
(B)Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.
2 Why do you [a]spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
3 Incline your ear, and (C)come to Me.
Hear, and your soul shall live;
(D)And I will make an everlasting covenant with you—
The (E)sure mercies of David.
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- Isaiah 55:2 Lit. weigh out silver
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