²⁰ "Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'

³³ but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

⁵ When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

²⁶ "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

²⁷ Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.

²⁸ 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?

²⁹ He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

³⁰ who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."

²⁹ But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

³⁰ and those who weep, as though they didn't weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn't possess;

³¹ and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.