Luke 14:33
So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
In Context
32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.
34“Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?
Cross References
Luke 5:28He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
Luke 18:22When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
Acts 5:1But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
Philippians 3:7However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
1 John 2:15Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
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 →