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171:2.3 " If you are not willing to pay the full price, you can hardly be my [[disciple]]. Before you go further, you should each sit down and count the [[cost]] of being my [[disciple]]. Which one of you would undertake to build a watchtower on your [[lands]] without first sitting down to count up the [[cost]] to see whether you had [[money]] enough to complete it? If you fail thus to [[reckon]] the [[cost]], after you have laid the [[foundation]], you may [[discover]] that you are unable to finish that which you have begun, and therefore will all your [[neighbors]] mock you, saying, `Behold, this man began to build but was unable to finish his [[work]].' Again, what [[king]], when he [[prepares]] to make [[war]] upon another king, does not first sit down and take [[counsel]] as to whether he will be able, with ten thousand men, to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? If the [[king]] cannot afford to meet his [[enemy]] because he is unprepared, he sends an [[Ambassador|embassy]] to this other king, even when he is yet a great way off, asking for terms of [[peace]].

171:2.3 " If you are not willing to pay the full price, you can hardly be my [[disciple]]. Before you go further, you should each sit down and count the [[cost]] of being my [[disciple]]. Which one of you would undertake to build a watchtower on your [[lands]] without first sitting down to count up the [[cost]] to see whether you had [[money]] enough to complete it? If you fail thus to [[reckon]] the [[cost]], after you have laid the [[foundation]], you may [[discover]] that you are unable to finish that which you have begun, and therefore will all your [[neighbors]] mock you, saying, `Behold, this man began to build but was unable to finish his [[work]].' Again, what [[king]], when he [[prepares]] to make [[war]] upon another king, does not first sit down and take [[counsel]] as to whether he will be able, with ten thousand men, to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? If the [[king]] cannot afford to meet his [[enemy]] because he is unprepared, he sends an [[Ambassador|embassy]] to this other king, even when he is yet a great way off, asking for terms of [[peace]].

171:2.4 " Now, then, must each of you sit down and count the [[cost]] of being my [[disciple]]. From now on you will not be able to follow after us, [[listening]] to the [[teaching]] and beholding the works; you will be required to face bitter [[persecutions]] and to bear [[witness]] for this [[gospel]] in the face of crushing [[disappointment]]. If you are unwilling to [[renounce]] all that you are and to [[dedicate]] all that you have, then are you unworthy to be my [[disciple]]. If you have already [[conquered]] yourself within your own [[heart]], you need have no [[fear]] of that outward [[victory]] which you must presently gain when the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] is [[rejected]] by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen_Gadol chief priests] and the [[Sadducees]] and is given into the hands of [[mocking]] unbelievers.

171:2.4 " Now, then, must each of you sit down and count the [[cost]] of being my [[disciple]]. From now on you will not be able to follow after us, [[listening]] to the [[teaching]] and beholding the works; you will be required to face bitter [[persecutions]] and to bear [[witness]] for this [[gospel]] in the face of crushing [[disappointment]]. If you are unwilling to [[renounce]] all that you are and to [[dedicate]] all that you have, then are you unworthy to be my [[disciple]]. If you have already [[conquered]] yourself within your own [[heart]], you need have no [[fear]] of that outward [[victory]] which you must presently gain when the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] is [[rejected]] by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen_Gadol chief priests] and the [[Sadducees]] and is given into the hands of [[Ridicule|mocking]] unbelievers.

171:2.5 " Now should you [[examine]] yourself to find out your [[motive]] for being my [[disciple]]. If you seek [[honor]] and [[glory]], if you are worldly minded, you are like the salt when it has lost its [[savor]]. And when that which is [[valued]] for its saltiness has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Such a condiment is useless; it is fit only to be cast out among the [[refuse]]. Now have I [[warned]] you to turn back to your [[homes]] in [[peace]] if you are not willing to drink with me the cup which is being [[prepared]]. Again and again have I told you that [[the Kingdom|my kingdom]] is not of this world, but you will not [[believe]] me. He who has ears to hear let him hear what I say. "

171:2.5 " Now should you [[examine]] yourself to find out your [[motive]] for being my [[disciple]]. If you seek [[honor]] and [[glory]], if you are worldly minded, you are like the salt when it has lost its [[savor]]. And when that which is [[valued]] for its saltiness has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Such a condiment is useless; it is fit only to be cast out among the [[refuse]]. Now have I [[warned]] you to turn back to your [[homes]] in [[peace]] if you are not willing to drink with me the cup which is being [[prepared]]. Again and again have I told you that [[the Kingdom|my kingdom]] is not of this world, but you will not [[believe]] me. He who has ears to hear let him hear what I say. "