26And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
27Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.
28For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?
29For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,
30And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.
31Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.
