Luke 14:30 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Saying, This man began to build and was not able (worth enough) to finish.

American Standard Version (1901)

saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Common English Bible

They will say, ‘Here’s the person who began construction and couldn’t complete it!’

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Saying: This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Luke 14:30 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 7:27

The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.”

Luke 14:29

Otherwise, when he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all who are looking on will begin to mock him,

Luke 14:31

Or what king, when he is going out to confront another king in battle, does not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to face the king who is coming against him with twenty thousand men?

Hebrews 10:38

But the righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.”

Hebrews 6:11

We want each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope to the very end,

2 John 1:8

Watch yourselves, so that we do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.