NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 26

Luke 14:26

World English Bible Updated

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

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Luke 14:26 in context

Luke 14:23–29

23

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

24

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper. For many are called, but few are chosen.’”

25

Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

26
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“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

27

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

28

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

29

Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

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