Bible Verses

Otherwise, if you’ve laid the foundation and can’t complete it, everyone will laugh at you: 

Do you start building a house without first sitting down to count the cost to see if you have enough to finish it? 

Whoever does not follow me, carrying his own cross, cannot be my disciple.

“If you come to me, unwilling to sacrifice your love for your father and mother, your spouse and children, your brothers and sisters and indeed yourself, you cannot be my disciple. 

One day, as large crowds were walking with Jesus, he turned and said to them, 

 I tell you, none of those invited will have a morsel of my feast.”

The master said, ‘Go out to the highways and country lanes and force people to come in to ensure that my house is full. 

The servant reported after a while, ‘Sir, your orders have been carried out, but there is still room.’ 

The servant returned alone and reported this to his master. Upon hearing his account, the master of the house became furious and told his servant, ‘Go out quickly, into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ 

Still, another said, ‘How can I come, when I’ve just got married?’