Luke 14:30
28 Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?
29 Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
31 Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
- KJV
- Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
- WEB
- saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
- ASV
- saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
- DARBY
- saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?
- BLB
- saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’?
- ÅB
- Denne mann begynte å bygge, og var ikke i stand til å fullføre det?
- OTB
- og si: 'Denne personen begynte å bygge og kunne ikke fullføre det.'
- B1930
- Denne mann begynte å bygge, og var ikke i stand til å fullføre det?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 6:11
We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.
Read in context2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.
Read in contextHebrews 6:4–8
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
Read in context2 Peter 2:19–22
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
Read in contextHebrews 10:38
But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
Read in contextActs 1:18–19
(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:11–14
For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Read in contextMatthew 7:27
The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”
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