The Cost of Discipleship

Luke 14

²⁵ Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, ²⁶ _n "If anyone comes to me and _o does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, _p yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ _q Whoever does not _r bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. ²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not _s first 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 _t sit 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 _u So therefore, any one of you who _v does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

1. Cross References
   Luke 14:33
   So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
   Matthew 10:37
   Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
   Deuteronomy 33:9
   Who said of his father and mother, 'I regard them not'; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.
   
2. Cross References
   Luke 16:13
   No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
   
3. Cross References
   John 12:25
   Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
   Acts 20:24
   But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
   Revelation 12:11
   And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
   
4. Cross References
   Luke 9:23
   And he said to all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
   Matthew 10:38
   And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
   Matthew 16:24
   Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
   Mark 8:34
   And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
   
5. Cross References
   John 19:17
   And he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
   
6. Cross References
   Proverbs 24:27
   Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
   
7. Cross References
   Luke 14:28
   For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
   
8. Cross References
   Philippians 3:7
   But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
   
9. Cross References
   Luke 14:26
   If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
   Luke 18:28
   And Peter said, "See, we have left our homes and followed you.