9 Bible Verses About Counting the Cost
9 Bible verses about Counting the Cost to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
If any of you planned to build a tower, would you not sit down first and add up the expense, to find out whether you could afford to finish it?
So it is with you: whoever does not let go of all that they have cannot be my disciple.
Jesus answered, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and keeps looking back is suited for the kingdom of God.”
More than that, I count everything as loss because knowing Christ Jesus my Lord is worth far more than all of it. For his sake I have lost everything, and I count it all as dung, so that I may gain Christ
The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field. A man came across it and covered it up again. Then, full of joy, he went and sold everything he owned and bought that field.
Unless a person carries their own cross and walks behind me, they cannot be my disciple.
What does anyone gain by winning the whole world, if it costs them their life?
Suppose someone gains the whole world but forfeits their life. What good will that do them? Or what could anyone give to buy back their life?
But whatever was profit to me, I have come to count as loss because of Christ.