Luke 14:25–33

²⁵And great crowds went with him; and, turning round, he said to them, ²⁶If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple; ²⁷and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. ²⁸For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what is needed to complete it; ²⁹in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him, ³⁰saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish? ³¹Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand? ³²and if not, while he is yet far off, having sent an embassy, he asks for terms of peace. ³³Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.