Luke 14:25–34

The Cost of Discipleship

²⁵Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, ²⁶ⁿ“If anyone comes to me and ^odoes not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, ^pyes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ^27qWhoever does not ^rbear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. ²⁸For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not ^sfirst sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? ²⁹Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, ³⁰saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ ³¹Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not ^tsit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³²And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. ^33uSo therefore, any one of you who ^vdoes not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Salt Without Taste Is Worthless

^34w“Salt is good, ^xbut if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?