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

“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. 

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

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

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

‘This fellow started to build and was not able to finish.’

And when a king wages war against another king, does he not first sit down to consider whether his ten thousand can stand against the twenty thousand of his opponent? 

And if not, while the other is still a long way off, he sends messengers to arrange peace negotiations. 

In the same way, none of you may become my disciple if he does not give up everything he has.