Luke 14:28

New English Translation

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

Cross References

Proverbs 24:27

Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 8:20

Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Luke 14:27

Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Luke 14:29

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him.

Luke 14:33

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

Acts 21:13

Then Paul replied, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”