Luke 14:27-30

The Cost of Discipleship

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.'

1. 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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. Cross References
   Proverbs 24:27
   Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.