For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?
Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.
And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.
For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,
And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.
Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.