Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
27Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Cross References
Genesis 11:4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Proverbs 24:27Prepare thy work without, and make it ready for thee in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Matthew 10:22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.
Luke 14:33So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
1 Thessalonians 3:4For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
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 →