Luke 14:25-27

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.

Cross References

• 1. 14:26 ver. 33; Matt. 10:37; [Deut. 33:9]
• 2. 14:26 ch. 16:13
• 3. 14:26 John 12:25; Acts 20:24; Rev. 12:11
• 4. 14:27 ch. 9:23; Matt. 10:38; 16:24; Mark 8:34
• 5. 14:27 John 19:17