Luke 14:28
For who of you, willing to build a tower, does not first, having sat down, count the expense, whether he has the things for completing?
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27and whoever does not carry his cross, and come after Me, is not able to be My disciple.
Cross References
Genesis 11:4And they say, “Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
Proverbs 24:27Prepare your work in an out-place, || And make it ready in the field—go afterward, || Then you have built your house.
Matthew 10:22and you will be hated by all because of My Name, but he who has endured to the end, he will be saved.
Luke 14:33So, then, everyone of you who does not take leave of all that he himself has, is not able to be My disciple.
1 Thessalonians 3:4for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand that we are about to suffer tribulation, as it also came to pass, and you have known [it];
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 →