Joshua 24:15-28
15 aAnd if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, bchoose this day whom you will serve, whether cthe gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or dthe gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. eBut as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”16Then the people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods, 17for it is the Lord our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed. 18And the Lord drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God.”
19But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord, for he is fa holy God. He is ga jealous God; hhe will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. 20 iIf you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then jhe will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.” 21And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the Lord.” 22Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that kyou have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.” 23He said, “Then lput away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.” 24And the people said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.” 25So Joshua mmade a covenant with the people that day, and put in place nstatutes and rules for them at Shechem. 26And Joshua owrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And phe took a large stone and set it up there qunder the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. 27And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, rthis stone shall be a witness against us, for sit has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.” 28So Joshua tsent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
Luke 14:25-33
The Cost of Discipleship
25Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 u“If anyone comes to me and vdoes not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, wyes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 xWhoever does not ybear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not zfirst sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not aasit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 abSo therefore, any one of you who acdoes not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
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