Bible Verses About Self-Denial: Preferring Christ to all earthly relations

And another of the disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

But Jesus saith unto him, Follow me; and leave the dead to bury their own dead.

If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.