²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not ^(A)first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

^33 (A)So therefore, any one of you who ^(B)does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

¹⁹ But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord, for he is ^(A)a holy God. He is ^(B)a jealous God; ^(C)he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. ^20 (D)If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then ^(E)he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.” ²¹ And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the Lord.” ²² Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that ^(F)you have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.” ²³ He said, “Then ^(G)put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.” ²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.”

^22 (A)and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. ^(B)But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

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.”

⁴ For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, ^(A)just as it has come to pass, and just as you know. ⁵ For this reason, ^(B)when I could bear it no longer, ^(C)I sent to learn about your faith, ^(D)for fear that somehow ^(E)the tempter had tempted you and ^(F)our labor would be in vain.

²² Jesus answered, ^(A)“You do not know what you are asking. Are you able ^(B)to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” ²³ He said to them, ^(C)“You will drink ^(D)my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, ^(E)but it is for those for whom it has been ^(F)prepared by my Father.”

⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower ^(A)with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” ⁵ And ^(B)the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. ⁶ And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. ⁷ Come, ^(C)let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” ⁸ So ^(D)the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. ⁹ Therefore its name was called ^(E)Babel, because there the Lord confused^[a] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.