Luke 14:33
31 Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.
In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
34 Salt is good, but if the salt loses its savor, with what will it be seasoned?
35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile, and it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
- KJV
- So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
- WEB
- So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
- ASV
- So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
- DARBY
- Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.
- BLB
- So therefore, every one of you⁺ who does not take leave of all that he himself possesses is not able to be My disciple.
- ÅB
- Slik kan da ingen av dere være min disippel uten at han oppgir alt det han eier.
- OTB
- På samme måte kan de av dere som ikke gir avkall på alt dere eier ikke være Mine disipler.
- B1930
- Således kan da ingen av eder være min disippel uten at han opgir alt det han eier.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Philippians 3:7–8
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
Read in context1 John 2:15–16
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Read in contextLuke 5:28
and Levi got up, left everything, and followed Him.
Read in contextLuke 14:26
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
Read in contextLuke 18:28–30
“Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”
Read in contextLuke 18:22–23
On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
Read in contextLuke 5:11
And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him.
Read in contextActs 5:1–5
Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.
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