The Cost of Discipleship

²⁵Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, ²⁶n“If anyone comes to me and odoes not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, pyes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷qWhoever does not rbear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. ²⁸For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sfirst sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? ²⁹Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, ³⁰saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ ³¹Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not tsit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³²And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. ³³uSo therefore, any one of you who vdoes not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Salt Without Taste Is Worthless

³⁴w“Salt is good, xbut if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?

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