Luke 14:32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.
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In Context
33So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
Cross References
1 Kings 20:31His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”
Job 40:9Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
Luke 12:58For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
James 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists 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 →