Luke 14:25-33

25Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,

26“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

27Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

28For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him.

30They will say, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’

31Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

32If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.

33In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.