Luke 14:26-28

Jubilee Bible 2000

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

²⁷ And whosoever does not bear his cross {Gr. stauros – stake} and come after me cannot be my disciple.

²⁸ For which of you intending to build a tower does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has sufficient to finish it?