Luke 14:31 - Catholic Public Domain Version

Or, what king, advancing to engage in war against another king, would not first sit down and consider whether he may be able, with ten thousand, to meet one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Or what king, going out to engage in conflict with another king, will not first sit down and consider and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand [men] to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

American Standard Version (1901)

Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

Common English Bible

Or what king would go to war against another king without first sitting down to consider whether his ten thousand soldiers could go up against the twenty thousand coming against him?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Or what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down, and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him?

English Standard Version 2016

Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 14:31 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 20:11

And responding, the king of Israel said, "Tell him that one who is girded should not boast the same as one who is ungirded."

Job 41:8

They adhere to one another, and they hold themselves in place and will not be separated.

Proverbs 20:18

Plans are strengthened by counsels. And wars are to be handled by governments.

Proverbs 25:8

The things that your eyes have seen, do not offer hastily in a quarrel, lest afterward you may not be able to make amends, when you have dishonored your friend.

Luke 14:30

saying: 'This man began to build what he was not able to finish.'

Luke 14:32

If not, then while the other is still far away, sending a delegation, he would ask him for terms of peace.