Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any {man} will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and {then} I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? {Go...: Heb. Go return}

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

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset {us}, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of {this} life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

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

And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

All the days that he separateth {himself} unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.

And he left all, rose up, and followed him.

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, {Is} not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.