Luke 14:25-35

The Cost of Discipleship

25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,

26 ¹"If anyone comes to me and ²does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, ³yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

27 ⁴Whoever does not ⁵bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not ⁶first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

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

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

31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not ⁷sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.

33 ⁸So therefore, any one of you who ⁹does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Salt Without Taste Is Worthless

34 ¹⁰"Salt is good, ¹¹but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?

35 It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. ¹²He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Cross References

• 1. ver. 33; Matthew 10:37; [Deuteronomy 33:9]
• 2. Luke 16:13
• 3. John 12:25; Acts 20:24; Revelation 12:11
• 4. Luke 9:23; Matthew 10:38; Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34
• 5. John 19:17
• 6. [Proverbs 24:27]
• 7. ver. 28
• 8. [Philippians 3:7]
• 9. [ver. 26; Luke 18:28]
• 10. Mark 9:50
• 11. Matthew 5:13
• 12. See Matthew 11:15