For which of you, wishing to build a tower, not first, having sat down, calculates the expense, if he have things for completion?
Prepare thy work without, and make it ready for thee in the field afterwards; and build thy house.
And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved.
And Jesus says to him, The foxes have dens, and the fowls of heaven occupy nests; but the Son of man has not where he might recline the head.
And whoever lifts not his cross, and comes after me, cannot be my disciple.
That lest, having set the foundation, and not able to finish, all seeing begin to mock him,
So then, every one of you, who renounces not all of his possessions, cannot be my disciple.
And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus.