Luke 14:28

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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?

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  • Prov 24:27 : 27 Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.
  • Matt 8:20 : 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.”
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved!
  • Luke 14:33 : 33 In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.
  • 1 Thess 3:4-5 : 4 For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know. 5 So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.
  • 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder, 14 since I know that my tabernacle will soon be removed, because our Lord Jesus Christ revealed this to me.
  • Gen 11:4-9 : 4 Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.” 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building. 6 And the LORD said,“If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.” 8 So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
  • Josh 24:19-24 : 19 Joshua warned the people,“You will not keep worshiping the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins. 20 If you abandon the LORD and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well.” 21 The people said to Joshua,“No! We really will worship the LORD. 22 Joshua said to the people,“Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the LORD?” They replied,“We are witnesses!” 23 Joshua said,“Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the LORD God of Israel.” 24 The people said to Joshua,“We will worship the LORD our God and obey him.”
  • Matt 20:22-23 : 22 Jesus answered,“You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?” They said to him,“We are able.” 23 He told them,“You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right and at my left is not mine to give. Rather, it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

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  • Luke 14:29-33
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    29Otherwise, 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.

    30They will say,‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’

    31Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

    32If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.

    33In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

  • Luke 14:25-27
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    25Counting the Cost Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,

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

    27Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

  • Luke 12:17-18
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    17so he thought to himself,‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’

    18Then he said,‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

  • Luke 6:46-49
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    46“Why do you call me‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do what I tell you?

    47“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice– I will show you what he is like:

    48He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

    49But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!”

  • Matt 16:24-26
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    24Then Jesus said to his disciples,“If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

    25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

    26For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

  • Matt 7:24-27
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    24Hearing and Doing“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

    25The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation had been laid on rock.

    26Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

    27The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”

  • Matt 10:38
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    38And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

  • Luke 12:25-26
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    25And which of you by worrying can add an hour to his life?

    26So if you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about the rest?

  • Matt 6:27
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    27And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life?

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    20But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

    21So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”

  • Mark 8:34-35
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    34Following Jesus Then Jesus called the crowd, along with his disciples, and said to them,“If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

    35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and because of the gospel will save it.

  • Luke 9:23-25
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    23A Call to Discipleship Then he said to them all,“If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

    24For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.

    25For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

  • Mark 13:2
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    2Jesus said to him,“Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

  • Luke 9:62
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    62Jesus said to him,“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

  • 1 Cor 3:10
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    10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

  • Prov 24:27
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    27Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.

  • Luke 17:7
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    7“Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep,‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’?

  • Mark 13:15
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    15The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house.

  • Luke 6:39
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    39He also told them a parable:“Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

  • Deut 20:6
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    6Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

  • Luke 18:29
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    29Then Jesus said to them,“I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God’s kingdom

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

  • Matt 6:24-25
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    24“No one 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.

    25Do Not Worry“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?

  • Luke 12:15
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    15Then he said to them,“Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

  • Matt 12:29
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    29How else can someone enter a strong man’s house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.

  • Luke 21:34
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    34Be Ready!“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

  • Gen 11:4
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    4Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

  • Jas 4:13
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    13Come now, you who say,“Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”