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

And another of his disciples saide vnto him, Master, suffer me first to goe, and burie my father.

But Iesus said vnto him, Followe me, and let the dead burie their dead.

If any man come to mee, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters: yea, and his owne life also, he can not be my disciple.