For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
¶Establish your work outside And make it ready for yourself in the field; And afterwards, you shall build your house.
And you will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.
And Jesus *said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
Lest, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,
So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.
Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, crying and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”