Luke 14:30
"‘This fellow began to build and could not finish.’
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
In Context
Cross References
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."
Acts 1:18"Now this man bought a plot of ground with the price of his treachery, and falling there headlong he burst asunder and all his bowels gushed out.
Hebrews 6:4For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,
Hebrews 10:38But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.
2 John 1:8Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have wrought, but that you receive a full reward.
Matthew Henry on Luke 14:26-35
The Necessity of Self-denial. 25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 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… Read the whole commentary →