Luke 14:19-28

¹⁹Another said, 'I have bought five pairs of oxen, and I am going to try them out. Please excuse me.'

²⁰Then another man said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'

²¹The servant came and told his master these things. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the town and bring in here the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

²²The servant said, 'Master, what you commanded has been done, and yet there is still room.'

²³The master said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

²⁴For I say to you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.'”

²⁵Now large crowds were going with him, and he turned and said to them,

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

²⁷Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

²⁸For which of you who desires to build a tower does not first sit down and count the cost to calculate if he has what he needs to complete it?