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Luke 14:28 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Luke 14:28

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26 “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

27 Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

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

29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

30 saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

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Luke 14:1

"When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him."

Luke 14:2

"Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him."

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"Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”"

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"But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go."

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"He answered them, “Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”"

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