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

Another of the talmidim said to him, "Sir, first let me go and bury my father."

But Yeshua replied, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead."

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, his mother, his wife, his children, his brothers and his sisters, yes, and his own life besides, he cannot be my talmid.