Luke 14:28
For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what [is needed] to complete it;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
27and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Cross References
Genesis 11:4And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
Proverbs 24:27Prepare thy work without, and put thy field in order, and afterwards build thy house.
Matthew 10:22and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to [the] end, *he* shall be saved.
Luke 14:33Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.
1 Thessalonians 3:4for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass, and ye 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 →