25Now large crowds were going with him, and he turned and said to them.26If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.27Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.28For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?29Lest, after he has laid a foundation and is not strong enough to finish, all who see it begin to mock him.30saying, "This is the man who began to build and was not able to finish."31Or what king, going to confer with another king about war, does not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one coming against him with twenty thousand?32But if not, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.33So therefore every one of you who does not give up all his own possessions cannot be my disciple.34Salt is good; but if salt also becomes tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?35It is fit neither for the earth nor for the manure pile; they throw it out. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear.