Luke 14:25-35 - The Cost Of Discipleship
25 There were large crowds travelling with him; so he turned and said to them, 26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine; 27 whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
28 For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? ??29 in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him, 30 saying, 'This fellow started to build but he could not finish it.'
31 Or what king sets out to fight against another king without first sitting down to deliberate whether with ten thousand men he can encounter the king who is attacking him with twenty thousand? 32 If he cannot, when the other is still at a distance he will send an embassy to do homage to him. 33 So with everyone of you who will not part with all his goods he cannot be a disciple of mine.
34 Salt is excellent indeed: but if salt becomes insipid, what will restore its flavour? 35 It is no use for either soil or dunghill, it is flung out. He who has an ear let him listen to this."