Quotes about Priorities

Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, so I cannot come.’

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?

No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God

“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.

What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife,

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband.

See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.