saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
And the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
Lest, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,
Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
But My righteous one shall live by faith, And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.
And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,
See to yourselves, that you do not lose what we accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.