For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he has enough to finish it?
Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.
And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.
And whosoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.
Then Paul answered, What mean you to weep and to break my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.