Luke 14:26-28

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁶ If 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.

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

²⁸ For 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: