26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life,+ he cannot be my disciple.+
24 Nevertheless, I do not consider my own life of any importance to me,* if only I may finish my course+ and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus,+ to bear thorough witness to the good news of the undeserved kindness of God.