Luke 14:28
"Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means to finish it? --
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
27No one who does not carry his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.
Cross References
Matthew 10:22And you will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name; but he who holds out to the End--he will be saved.
Luke 14:33Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from all that belongs to him can be a disciple of mine.
1 Thessalonians 3:4For even when we were with you, we forewarned you, saying, "We are soon to suffer affliction;" and this actually happened, as you well 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 →