Bible Verses about “the cost of discipleship”

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

“Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.”

“I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."”

“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?”

“He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.”

“Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,”

“saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'”

“For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?”

“He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.”

“"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.”

“So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.”

“Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.”

“Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?”

“Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.”

“He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.”

“Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ”

“For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?”

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.”

“Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,”

“However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.”

“For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.”

“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”