saying, ‘This person began to build but was not able to finish.’
It rained hard, the floods came, and the winds blew and hit that house, and it fell with a big crash.”
If you don’t, you might lay the foundation, but you would not be able to finish. Then all who would see it would make fun of you,
“If a king is going to fight another king, first he will sit down and plan. He will decide if he and his ten thousand soldiers can defeat the other king who has twenty thousand soldiers.
Those who are right with me will live by faith. But if they turn back with fear, I will not be pleased with them.”
We want each of you to go on with the same hard work all your lives so you will surely get what you hope for.
Be careful yourselves that you do not lose everything you have worked for, but that you receive your full reward.