saying, ‘This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’
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.”
Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
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?
but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance of hope until the end,
Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.