Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first, and consults whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand?
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have worked for, but that we receive a full reward.
