²⁶If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

²⁷And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

²⁸For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:

²⁹Lest, after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him,

³⁰Saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish.

³¹Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him?

³²Or else, while the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of peace.

³³So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth cannot be my disciple.

³⁴Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

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