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If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;
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and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
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For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what [is needed] to complete it;
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in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,
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saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?