So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.
Parallel translations
- WEB So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
- KJV So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
- BSB In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
- NKJV So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.
- NLT So you cannot become my disciple without giving up everything you own.
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Quick answer
Jesus concludes that whoever does not renounce all he has cannot be His disciple. Christ requires the surrender of everything to His lordship.
Overview
'Renounce all' means holding all possessions and relationships under Christ's claim, ready to relinquish them for Him. This is the cost the two parables prepared hearers to weigh. Genuine discipleship places everything at Jesus' disposal, treasuring Him above all earthly things.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Phil 3:7–8However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
- 1 Jn 2:15–16Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
- Luke 5:28He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
- Luke 14:26“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.
- Luke 18:28–30Peter said, “Look, we have left everything, and followed you.”
- Luke 18:22–23When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”
- Luke 5:11When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.
- Acts 5:1–5But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,
- Acts 8:19–22saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
- 2 Tim 4:10for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
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