3 And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men. 4 For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night, 5 which was held for nothing: so their years shall be. 6 In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry.12 be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom. 13 Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants. 14 We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days. 15 We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils. 16 Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons. 17 And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.

9 but I beg you instead, for the sake of charity, since you are so much like Paul: an old man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beg you, on behalf of my son, whom I have begotten in my chains, Onesimus.12 So I have sent him back to you. And may you receive him like my own heart. 13 I myself wanted to retain him with me, so that he might minister to me, on your behalf, while I am in the chains of the Gospel. 14 But I was willing to do nothing without your counsel, so as not to make use of your good deed as if out of necessity, but only willingly. 15 So perhaps, then, he departed from you for a time, so that you might receive him again for eternity, 16 no longer as a servant, but, in place of a servant, a most beloved brother, especially to me: but how much so more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord! 17 Therefore, if you hold me to be a companion, receive him as you would me.

25 Now great crowds traveled with him. And turning around, he said to them: 26 “If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yes, even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me, is not able to be my disciple. 28 For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it? 29 Otherwise, after he will have laid the foundation and not been able to finish it, everyone who sees it may begin to mock him, 30 saying: ‘This man began to build what he was not able to finish.’ 31 Or, what king, advancing to engage in war against another king, would not first sit down and consider whether he may be able, with ten thousand, to meet one who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 If not, then while the other is still far away, sending a delegation, he would ask him for terms of peace. 33 Therefore, everyone of you who does not renounce all that he possesses is not able to be my disciple.