‘Look at him: he started building but he couldn't finish.’
The rain poured down, and the floods rose, and the winds blew hard against the house, and it fell down—it totally collapsed.”
Otherwise, if after laying the foundation you weren't able to finish it, everyone who saw it would laugh at you, saying,
What king goes to war with another king without first sitting down with his advisors to work out whether he and his ten thousand can defeat the one marching against him with twenty thousand?
Those who do what is right will live by trusting in God, and if they draw back from their commitment, I won't be pleased with them.”
We want each of you to show the same kind of commitment, confident in God's hope until it's fulfilled.
Be careful that you don't lose what we've worked so hard for, and that you receive all that you should.
