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25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,
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Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said:
26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
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“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
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And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
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“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
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For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you,
30 saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'
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saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
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“Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
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If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.
33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
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In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.
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