Luke 14:30

New Testament · SCRIPTURE

Luke 14:30

Compare this verse across Bible translations. BLB includes New Testament text only (publisher draft).

BSB

Berean Standard Bible

saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

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

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Luke 14

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,

³⁰ 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.

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