Luke 14:33
"Just so any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Montgomery New Testament
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
34"Salt is good, but if even the salt have lost its flavor, with what shall it be seasoned?
Cross References
Luke 5:28He rose, left everything, and followed him.
Luke 18:22And receiving this reply, Jesus said to him. "One thing you are still lacking. Sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me."
Acts 5:1But a man named Ananias who, with his wife Sapphira, sold a farm of his,
Philippians 3:7But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ.
1 John 2:15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not 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 →