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Luke 14:30

Following Jesus

28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

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

31 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?

32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

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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?

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Cross references

  • Hebrews 6:11

    And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

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  • 2 John 1:8

    Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

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  • Hebrews 6:4–8

    For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

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  • 2 Peter 2:19–22

    While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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  • Hebrews 10:38

    Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

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  • Acts 1:18–19

    Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

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  • 1 Corinthians 3:11–14

    For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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  • Matthew 7:27

    And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

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