the cost to follow jesus
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23Then he said to everyone: “If anyone is willing to come after me: let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day, and follow me.
1Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth. 3For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols, 6the wrath of God has overwhelmed the sons of unbelief.
15Be solicitous in the task of presenting yourself before God as a proven and unashamed worker who has handled the Word of Truth correctly.
62Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
3Go forth. Behold, I send you out like lambs among wolves.
33Therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all that he possesses is not able to be my disciple.
18Then Jesus, seeing the great crowds encircling him, gave orders to go across the sea. 19And one scribe, approaching, said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you will go.” 20And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to rest his head.” 21Then another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” 22But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and allow the dead to bury their dead.”
44For this reason, you also must be prepared, for you do not know at what hour the Son of man will return.
57And it happened that, as they were walking along the way, someone said to him, “I will follow you, wherever you will go.” 58Jesus said to him: “Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests. But the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.” 59Then he said to another, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” 60And Jesus said to him: “Let the dead bury their dead. But you go and announce the kingdom of God.” 61And another said: “I will follow you, Lord. But permit me first to explain this to those of my house.” 62Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
38And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
25Now great crowds traveled with him. And turning around, he 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, and yes, even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple. 27And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me, is not able to be my disciple. 28For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it? 29Otherwise, after he will have laid the foundation and not been able to finish it, everyone who sees it may begin to mock him, 30saying: ‘This man began to build what he was not able to finish.’
20And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to rest his head.”
34And calling together the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone chooses to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35I have revealed all things to you, because by laboring in this way, it is necessary to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
20I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.
21For you have been called to this because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in his footsteps.
5And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,
17So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.
28For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it?