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

And another of his disciples said to him, `Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;'

and Jesus said to him, `Follow me, and suffer the dead to bury their own dead.'

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;