Old/New Testament

Carry Your Own Cross And Follow Me. Calculate The Cost First

²⁵ And large crowds were proceeding-with Him. And having turned, He said to them, ²⁶ “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. ²⁷ Whoever is not carrying his own cross^[a] and coming after Me, cannot be My disciple. ²⁸ For which of you wanting to build a tower does not first, having sat-down, calculate the cost to see whether he has enough for the completion?— ²⁹ in order that he having laid a foundation and not being able to finish it out, all the ones observing may not perhaps begin to mock him, ³⁰ saying that ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish it out!’ ³¹ Or what king going to engage another king in battle will not, having sat-down first, deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet^[b] the one coming against him with twenty thousand? ³² Otherwise indeed, the one coming still being far away— the king, having sent-forth a delegation, asks the things for peace. ³³ So therefore, any of you who is not saying-goodbye^[c] to all his possessions cannot be My disciple. ³⁴ Therefore, salt is good. But if indeed the salt should become-tasteless, with what will it be seasoned? ³⁵ It is fit neither for soil nor for the manure-pile. They throw it outside. Let the one having ears to hear, hear”.