Luke 14

Which worship songs are based on Luke 14?

  1. Invited — Tenth Avenue North (2024) Luke 14:15-24

    The recurring picture of an open invitation to God's table, with room being made for all, closely evokes Jesus' parable of the great banquet, in which the host extends the invitation broadly after the original guests decline.

  2. we the light — Red Tips (2024) Luke 14:23

    The reference to carrying the mission into hedges and highways distinctly echoes the master's instruction in Jesus' parable of the great banquet to seek people in those places and bring them in.

  3. Counted the Cost — Cory Asbury (2009) Luke 14:26-28

    The song combines calculating the demands of discipleship, subordinating parental relationships to allegiance to Jesus, carrying the cross, and relinquishing possessions. Together these details specifically reflect Jesus’ teaching about the cost of following him.

  4. All In - Live — Jesus Culture (2023) Luke 14:27-33

    The bridge combines cross-bearing, counting the cost, relinquishing everything, and following Jesus without retreat, closely reflecting Jesus’ teaching on the cost of discipleship.

  5. Stand — Newsboys (2021) Luke 14:27-33

    The combination of accepting the cross and deliberately assessing discipleship's cost closely reflects Jesus' warning to count the cost before following him.

  6. What I Think About — Zauntee (2024) Luke 14:27

    The call to bear a cross because of allegiance to Christ evokes Jesus’ teaching that disciples must carry their cross and follow him.

  7. Aftermath — Hillsong UNITED (2011) Luke 14:27

    The final verse’s commitment to carrying the cross echoes Jesus’ requirement that disciples bear their own cross and follow him. The surrounding renunciation of other gains reinforces this connection to costly discipleship.

  8. The Preacher and the Stranger [Live] — Joey + Rory (2013) Luke 14:27

    The recurring image of each person bearing a cross echoes Jesus’ teaching about bearing one’s own cross. The song adapts that discipleship image to the distinct burdens of bereavement and guilt carried by the preacher and the stranger.

  9. Before I Die — Kirk Franklin (2011) Luke 14:27-28

    The second verse joins carrying one's cross with calculating the cost of discipleship. That combination specifically follows Luke's adjacent teachings about bearing the cross and assessing the expense before building a tower.

  10. Known Only to Him — Elvis Presley (2014) Luke 14:27

    The singer describes personal suffering through the specific image of bearing one's own cross, drawing on Jesus' teaching about the cost of discipleship. The song applies that image to an enduring burden rather than retelling the crucifixion.

  11. The Cost — Sam Purpose (2020) Luke 14:27-33

    The repeated instruction to calculate discipleship’s cost, together with the demand to carry one’s cross, closely follows Jesus’ warning to assess the price before becoming his disciple.

  12. You'll Find Your Way — Andrew Peterson (2014) Luke 14:27-33

    The father's anticipation of his son's cross-bearing directly adapts Jesus’ requirement for discipleship. The accompanying emphasis on its cost particularly fits Luke’s adjoining teaching about reckoning the cost of following him.

  13. Hello Hurricane — Switchfoot (2009) Luke 14:28

    The second verse explicitly links building with calculating the cost beforehand, closely adapting Jesus' illustration of a prospective tower builder. Its surrounding emphasis on relinquishment also fits the passage's teaching about the cost of discipleship.

  14. I’m All In (Live) — Jono MacSorley & Cageless Birds (2025) Luke 14:28-33

    The bridge adopts Jesus' instruction to calculate the cost of discipleship before committing and joins it to a willingness to surrender everything.

  15. The Hard Way — John Schlitt (2011) Luke 14:28

    The opening adapts Jesus’ language about calculating the cost before undertaking a commitment. Its context of costly faithfulness closely matches his teaching about the demands of discipleship.

  16. Can't Quit You — Chris Llewellyn (2023) Luke 14:28-33

    The second verse directly invokes Jesus’ instruction to calculate the demands of discipleship before committing to follow him.

  17. Christ Lives in Me — Rend Collective (2018) Luke 14:28-33

    The decision to calculate the cost while surrendering personal ambitions reflects Jesus’ warning that disciples must assess and accept the full demands of following him.

  18. Awake in the Dream — John Mark McMillan (2022) Luke 14:28

    The appeal to assess the cost before remaining committed echoes Jesus’ instruction to calculate the expense before beginning construction, part of his teaching about the demands of discipleship. The song applies the expression to the cost of sustaining an intimate relationship.

Luke 14 (King James Version)

1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.

3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?

4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;

5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

6 And they could not answer him again to these things.

7 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,

8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;

9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.

10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:

17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,

26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.