Luke 14:25–33

Discipleship Tested

²⁵Now ¹large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them,

²⁶“^aIf anyone comes to Me, and does not ¹hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

²⁷“Whoever does not ^acarry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

²⁸“For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

²⁹“Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,

³⁰saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

³¹“Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and ^aconsider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

³²“Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends ¹a delegation and asks for terms of peace.

³³“So then, none of you can be My disciple who ^adoes not give up all his own possessions.