Luke 14:27-29

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁷ And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

²⁸ For which of you having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down, and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:

²⁹ Lest, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him,