²⁵ Now huge crowds were going along with [Jesus], and He turned and said to them,

²⁶ If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his [own] father and mother [^[a]in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God] and [likewise] his wife and children and brothers and sisters—[yes] and even his own life also—he cannot be My disciple.

²⁷ Whoever does not persevere and carry his own cross and come after (follow) Me cannot be My disciple.

²⁸ For which of you, wishing to build a ^[b]farm building, does not first sit down and calculate the cost [to see] whether he has sufficient means to finish it?

²⁹ Otherwise, when he has laid the foundation and is unable to complete [the building], all who see it will begin to mock and jeer at him,

³⁰ Saying, This man began to build and was not able (^[c]worth enough) to finish.

³¹ Or what king, going out to engage in conflict with another king, will not first sit down and consider and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand [men] to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

³² And if he cannot [do so], when the other king is still a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks the terms of peace.

³³ So then, any of you who does not forsake (renounce, surrender claim to, give up, ^[d]say good-bye to) all that he has cannot be My disciple.