mnt - Luke:14:25-35

mnt@Luke:14:25 @ Great crowds were along with him, and he turned to them and said.

mnt@Luke:14:26 @ "If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

mnt@Luke:14:27 @ "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

mnt@Luke:14:28 @ "Which of you who is desirous of building a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, to see if he has the means to complete it?

mnt@Luke:14:29 @ "Lest it happen that after he has laid the foundations and is unable to complete it, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him saying,

mnt@Luke:14:30 @ "This fellow began to build and could not finish.

mnt@Luke:14:31 @ "Or what king as he goes forth to join battle with another king in war does not sit down first and deliberate whether he can meet with ten thousand men the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?

mnt@Luke:14:32 @ "If he cannot, while the other king is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy to ask conditions of peace.

mnt@Luke:14:33 @ "Just so any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

mnt@Luke:14:34 @ "Salt is good, but if even the salt have lost its flavor, with what shall it be seasoned?

mnt@Luke:14:35 @ "It is fit neither for the land nor the dung-hill; men cast it out. He who has ears to hear let him listen to this!"