20 And a different one said, 'I marry a wife, and therefore I can not come.'"
Luke 14:20 Cross References - CLV
Deuteronomy 24:5
5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall neither go forth with the militia host, nor shall any matter of duty pass on to him. He shall be exempt for his house one year and rejoice with his wife whom he has taken.
Luke 14:26-28
26 If anyone is coming to Me and is not hating his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more his soul besides, he can not be My disciple."
27 And anyone who is not bearing his cross and coming after Me, can not be My disciple. "
28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, is not first seated to calculate the expense, to see if he has the wherewithal?-"
Luke 18:29-30
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
29 Now this I am averring, brethren, the era is limited; that, furthermore, those also having wives may be as not having them,
30 and those lamenting as not lamenting, and those rejoicing as not rejoicing, and those buying as not retaining,
31 and those using this world as not using it up. For the fashion of this world is passing by.
1 Corinthians 7:33
33 Yet he who marries is solicitous about the things of the world, how he should be pleasing his wife,