Luke 14:28

For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down, and count the cost, whether he has the means to finish it?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

In Context

27And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, can not be my disciple.

29Lest, when he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all that see it begin to deride him,

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22And you will be hated by all men on my account: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

Luke 14:33So, then, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has, can not be my disciple.

1 Thessalonians 3:4for even when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were about to be afflicted, as it also came to pass, and as you know.

Matthew Henry on Luke 14:26-35

The Necessity of Self-denial. 25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after… Read the whole commentary →

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