Scripture teaches that following God often requires significant personal sacrifice, including reevaluating family relationships. In Genesis, the creation account establishes the foundation for marriage and family, stating that a man leaves his father and mother to be united with his wife. Jesus references this passage in Matthew, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing one's relationship with God, as seen in His teaching that those who leave family for His sake will receive a hundredfold. Additionally, Jesus' words in Luke highlight the need to put loyalty to Him above all else, even family ties, while also honoring the commandment to honor one's parents, as stated in Exodus.
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And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ ? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them, “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. And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ ?
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.