Luke 14:32
If not, while the other army is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for conditions of peace.
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33So therefore, any one of you who does not give up all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Cross References
1 Kings 20:31Ben Hadad's servants said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
Job 40:9Do you have an arm like God's? 1 Can you thunder with a voice like him? 1
Luke 12:58For when you go with your adversary before the magistrate, on the way make an effort to settle the matter with him so that he does not drag you to the judge, and so that the judge does not deliver you to the officer, and the officer does not throw you into prison.
James 4:6But God gives more grace, so the scripture says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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 →