Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Luke 14:26

Context
NETBible

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate 1  his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, 2  he cannot be my disciple.

XREF

Ge 29:30,31; De 13:6-8; De 21:15; De 33:9; Job 7:15,16; Ps 73:25,26; Ec 2:17-19; Mal 1:2,3; Mt 10:37; Joh 12:25; Ac 20:24; Ro 9:13; Php 3:8; Re 12:11

NET © Notes

tn This figurative use operates on a relative scale. God is to be loved more than family or self.

tn Grk “his own soul,” but ψυχή (yuch) is frequently used of one’s physical life. It clearly has that meaning in this context.



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