and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters,
yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
014:027 No one who does not carry his own cross and come after me can
be a disciple of mine.
014:028 "Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down
first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means
to finish it?--
014:029 lest perhaps, when he has laid the foundation and is unable
to finish, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him,
014:030 saying, `This man began to build, but could not finish.'
014:031 Or what king, marching to encounter another king in war,
does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able
with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against
him with twenty thousand?
014:032 If not, while the other is still a long way off, he sends
messengers and sues for peace.
014:033 Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from all
that belongs to him can be a disciple of mine.
014:034 "Salt is good: but if even the salt has become tasteless,
what will you use to season it?
014:035 Neither for land nor dunghill is it of any use; they throw
it away. Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"
015:001 Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners were everywhere
in the habit of coming close to Him to listen to Him;
015:002 and this led the Pharisees and the Scribes indignantly
to complain, saying, "He gives a welcome to notorious sinners,
and joins them at their meals!"
015:003 So in figurative language He asked them,
015:004 "Which of you men, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost
one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in their pasture