count the cost verses

Lose to gain & count the cost

Matt 10:34-36
Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

Matt 10:21
And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

Matt 10:37-39
“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.

Matt 10:22
And you will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or [businesses/farms/jobs] for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

Philippians 3:7-8
But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as worthless trash/rubbish so that I may gain Christ

Hebrews 11:24-27
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be [aligned with them] choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of [the true] God than to enjoy [what the false religion offered, & the comforts in it, and what he had known and enjoyed among them], [he] considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of [what he had]; for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left [from there], not fearing the wrath of [the ones in power]; for he endured, [focused on the true God] Him who is unseen.

He aligned with truth, gave up everything, and clung to God, and aligned with the true people of faith.

Luke 14:26-33 
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you,...does not first sit down and count the cost

Mark 8:36 
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Matthew 6:24 
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other

Luke 12:5 
[Jesus said] But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him

False teachers & false religion
2 Tim 3:5
They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that! They are the kind who work their way into people’s homes and win the confidence of a vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. (Such women are forever following new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth.) These teachers oppose the truth ...They have depraved minds and a counterfeit faith. But they won’t get away with this for long. Someday everyone will recognize what fools they are

Matt 23:13-15
But woe to you... [decievers] For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you.... For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. Woe to you, blind guides

Galatians 1:8-9
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we [Apostles] have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!