Verse 20

Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I cannot come.’

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:33 : 33 But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife.
  • Deut 24:5 : 5 If a man has recently married, he is not to be sent to war or have any duty laid on him. He is to be free to stay at home for one year and bring joy to his wife whom he has married.
  • Luke 14:26-28 : 26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
  • Luke 18:29-30 : 29 Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, no one who has left house, parents, brothers, wife, or children for the sake of the kingdom of God, 30 will fail to receive many times more in this present age and, in the age to come, eternal life.
  • 1 Cor 7:29-31 : 29 This is what I mean, brothers and sisters: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as if they do not. 30 Those who weep, as if they did not weep; those who rejoice, as if they did not rejoice; those who buy, as if they did not possess. 31 And those who use the things of this world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.