Luke 14:28
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?
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27And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.
Cross References
Genesis 11:4And they said: “Come, let us make a city and a tower, so that its height may reach to heaven. And let us make our name famous before we are divided into all the lands.”
Proverbs 24:27Prepare your outdoor work, and diligently cultivate your field, so that afterward, you may build your house.
Matthew 10:22And you will be hated by all for the sake of my name. But whoever will have persevered, even to the end, the same shall be saved.
Luke 14:33Therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all that he possesses is not able to be my disciple.
1 Thessalonians 3:4For even while we were with you, we predicted to you that we would suffer tribulations, even as it has happened, 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 →