Luke 14:30 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁰ saying, ‘This man began to build [a tower] but was not able to finish it.’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ Saying, This man began to build and was not able (worth enough) to finish.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

³⁰ They will say, ‘Here’s the person who began construction and couldn’t complete it!’

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ saying: 'This man began to build what he was not able to finish.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 14:30 Cross References

Matthew 7:27

And the [heavy] rains came down and the flood waters rose and the winds blew and struck against that house [until] it collapsed with a terrible crash.”

Luke 14:29

For if he does not, maybe after he has laid the foundation and [then] is not able to complete [the tower], everyone who sees it will ridicule him,

Luke 14:31

Or what king, planning to engage another king in war, will not first sit down and evaluate whether he will be able, with ten thousand [soldiers], to defeat someone who attacks him with twenty thousand [soldiers]?

Hebrews 10:38

And my [i.e., God’s] righteous person will [obtain] life by [his] faith [in God]. But if he turns back [from me], my soul is not pleased with him.”

Hebrews 6:11

And it is our desire that each one of you shows the same eagerness [to live for Christ], so as to be fully assured of your hope [in never ending life] until the end [of your days].

2 John 1:8

Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you do not lose what we [Note: Some Greek manuscripts say “you”] worked for [i.e., the spiritual blessings you have acquired], but [continue faithful] so that you will receive a full reward. [See Luke 12:47-48; James 3:1; Matt. 20:1-15].