Luke 14:28
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28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?
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Proverbs 24:27
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27 Prepare your work outside;
get everything ready for you in the field;
and after that build your house.
Matthew 10:22
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22 and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.(A)
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Joshua 24:19-24
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19 But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.(A) 20 If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.”(B) 21 And the people said to Joshua, “No, we will serve the Lord!” 22 Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.” 23 He said, “Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.”(C) 24 The people said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and him we will obey.”(D)
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Luke 14:33
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33 So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions.(A)
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Matthew 8:20
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20 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
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1 Thessalonians 3:4-5
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4 In fact, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer persecution; so it turned out, as you know. 5 For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith; I was afraid that somehow the tempter had tempted you and that our labor had been in vain.(A)
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Acts 21:13
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13 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”(A)
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2 Peter 1:13-14
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Matthew 20:22-23
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22 But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?”[a] They said to him, “We are able.”(A) 23 He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left, this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”(B)
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- 20.22 Other ancient authorities add or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
Genesis 11:4-9
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4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”(A) 5 The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.(B) 6 And the Lord said, “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.(C) 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”(D) 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.(E) 9 Therefore it was called Babel,[a] because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.(F)
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- 11.9 In Heb Babel is a play on the verb meaning to confuse
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