If you want to build a tower, you first sit down and decide how much it will cost, to see if you have enough money to finish the job.
First, finish your outside work and prepare your fields. After that, you can build your house.
All people will hate you because you follow me, but those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved.
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes to live in, and the birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to rest his head.”
Whoever is not willing to carry his cross and follow me cannot be my follower.
If you don’t, you might lay the foundation, but you would not be able to finish. Then all who would see it would make fun of you,
In the same way, you must give up everything you have to be my follower.
But he said, “Why are you crying and making me so sad? I am not only ready to be tied up in Jerusalem, I am ready to die for the Lord Jesus!”