BLB(i)
26 “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters and yes, even his life, he is not able to be My disciple.
27 Whoever does not carry his cross and come after Me is not able to be My disciple.
28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first, having sat down, count the cost, whether he has enough for its completion?
29 Otherwise, he having laid its foundation and not being able to finish, all seeing it may begin to mock him,
30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
31 Or what king, proceeding to engage with another king in war, will not, having sat down, first take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 And if not, of him being still far off, having sent an embassy, he asks for peace.
33 So therefore every one of you who does not give up all that he himself possesses, is not able to be My disciple.
34 Therefore salt is good, but if even the salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?
35 It is fit neither for soil nor for manure; they cast it out. The one having ears to hear, let him hear.”