Luke 14:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Saying, This man began to build and was not able (worth enough) to finish.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

They will say, ‘Here’s the person who began construction and couldn’t complete it!’

Catholic Public Domain Version

saying: 'This man began to build what he was not able to finish.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 14:30 Cross References

Matthew 7:27

The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!”

Luke 14:29

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him,

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Hebrews 10:38

but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”

Hebrews 6:11

And we want each one of you to show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope to the very end,

2 John 1:8

Be on your guard, so that you do not lose what we have worked for but may receive a full reward.