NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 27

Luke 14:27

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

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Luke 14:24–30

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,

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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.

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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,

30

saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

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