“For who among you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost to see whether he has resources to complete it?
Set in order your outside work, make it ready for yourself in the field, and afterwards build your house.
You will be hated by all men for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Jesus replied, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
And whoever does not bear his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
Otherwise, perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to complete it, all who see it will begin to mock him,
So likewise, any of you who does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.
Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”