Luke 14:30
saying, `This man began to build, but could not finish.'
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 7:27The heavy rain descends, the swollen torrents come, and the winds blow and burst upon the house, and it falls; and disastrous is the fall."
Acts 1:18(Now having bought a piece of ground with the money paid for his wickedness he fell there with his face downwards, and, his body bursting open, he became disembowelled.
Hebrews 6:4For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once for all been enlightened, and have tasted the sweetness of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 10:38But it is by faith that My righteous servant shall live; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no pleasure in him."
2 John 1:8Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back 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 →