²⁰ And another said, ^(A)‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’

Miscellaneous Laws

^5 (A)“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year ^(B)to be happy with his wife^[a] whom he has taken.

³³ But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,

²⁹ This is what I mean, brothers: ^(A)the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, ³⁰ and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy ^(B)as though they had no goods, ³¹ and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For ^(C)the present form of this world is passing away.

²⁹ And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, ^(A)there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers^[a] or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, ³⁰ who will not receive ^(B)many times more ^(C)in this time, and in ^(D)the age to come eternal life.”

^26 (A)“If anyone comes to me and ^(B)does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, ^(C)yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ^27 (D)Whoever does not ^(E)bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. ²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not ^(F)first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?