And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.
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- WEB Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
- KJV And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
- BSB And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
- NASB And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms on account of My name, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.
- NLT And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as much in return and will inherit eternal life.
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Quick answer
Whoever leaves family or property for Christ's sake will receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life. No sacrifice for Jesus goes unrewarded.
Overview
Jesus assures his followers that whatever they surrender for his name will be repaid abundantly—in spiritual family and blessing now, and eternal life forever. This is not a promise of material profit but of immeasurable gain in Christ and his Kingdom. The gospel calls for costly allegiance and answers it with grace that infinitely outweighs the cost.
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- Luke 18:29–30He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,
- Mark 10:29–30Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
- Phil 3:8Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
- Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
- Matt 16:25For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
- Matt 10:37–38He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
- Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
- 1 Pet 4:14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
- Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
- John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
- Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
- Matt 5:11“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
- Acts 9:16For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
- Matt 8:21–22Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
- Matt 25:34Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
- 1 Cor 2:9But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
- Matt 19:16Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
- Matt 13:23What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
- 2 Cor 5:16Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
- Matt 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Matt 13:8Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
- 3 Jn 1:7because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
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