American Standard Version of 1901
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Now there went with him great multitudes: and he turned, and said unto them,
If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and {Or, simple}harmless as doves.
Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
And as they went on the way, a certain man said unto him, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness.
Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light {Or, in}among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.