Luke 14:30 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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 rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.”

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 14:31

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

Hebrews 10:38

but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Hebrews 6:11

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance of hope until the end,

2 John 1:8

Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.