Luke 14:28 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ For which of you, wishing to build a farm building, does not first sit down and calculate the cost [to see] whether he has sufficient means to finish it?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?

Common English Bible

²⁸ “If one of you wanted to build a tower, wouldn’t you first sit down and calculate the cost, to determine whether you have enough money to complete it?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ For which of you having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down, and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:

Luke 14:28 Cross References

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.

Matthew 10:22

and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 8:20

And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Luke 14:27

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Luke 14:29

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

Luke 14:33

So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Acts 21:13

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”