For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first, and count 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 by all men for my name’s sake: but he who endures to the end shall 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.
And whoever does not carry 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 see it begin to mock him,
So likewise, whoever he is of you who does not forsake all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.
Then Paul answered, What are you trying to do, weep and break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.