Luke 14:30 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

saying, This man 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

and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.

Luke 14:29

Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,

Luke 14:31

Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

Hebrews 10:38

But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

Hebrews 6:11

And we desire that each one of you may shew the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:

2 John 1:8

Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.