Luke 14:27
If you don't carry your cross and follow me, you can't be my disciple.
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In The King James Version
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 13:21They last for a while, but because they don't have roots, when problems and troubles come, they quickly fall away.
Mark 8:34Jesus called the crowd and his disciples over to him, and told them, “If you want to follow me, you must give up on yourselves, pick up your cross and follow me.
Mark 15:21They forced a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the countryside, to carry his cross. Simon was the father of Alexander and Rufus.
John 19:17They led Jesus away, who carried his own cross, and went out to the “Place of the Skull,” (Golgotha in Hebrew).
2 Timothy 1:12That's also the reason I'm suffering all this, but I'm not ashamed, because I know whom I've trusted. I'm confident that he can look after what I've entrusted to him until the Day he returns.
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 →