Luke 14:26

Luke 14:26. "If any man come to Me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple." We must 'hate' these, considered as an exchange for Christ, or as offered to us as inducements to forsake Christ. In the same manner as a just judge is said to hate gifts: Proverbs 15:27, "He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that hateth gifts shall live." Are we to 'hate' father, etc.? It is not meant that the judge should hate gold, or silver, or goods, simply considered, but considered as offered as a purchase and bias of his judgment. And in the same manner as it is said in Song of Solomon 8:7, "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned," not that it would be contemned simply and absolutely, but as offered as an exchange for those things which love seeks and desires.

Luke 15:21-22