For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce 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 even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”