Parallel Verses
Montgomery New Testament
"'This fellow began to build and could not finish.'
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
and say, "This person started a building but couldn't finish it.'
A Conservative Version
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
American Standard Version
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
saying, 'This man began to build [a tower] but was not able to finish it.'
Anderson New Testament
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Bible in Basic English
And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.
Common New Testament
saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to finish.'
Daniel Mace New Testament
this man, will they say, began to build, but wanted stock to finish.
Darby Translation
saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?
Godbey New Testament
saying, that this man began to build, and was not able to complete it.
Goodspeed New Testament
and say, 'This man started to erect a building, and could not finish it!'
John Wesley New Testament
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Julia Smith Translation
Saying, That this man began to build, and was not able to finish.
King James 2000
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Lexham Expanded Bible
saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!'
Modern King James verseion
saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to make an end.'
Moffatt New Testament
saying, 'This fellow started to build but he could not finish it.'
NET Bible
They will say, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!'
New Heart English Bible
saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to finish.'
Noyes New Testament
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Sawyer New Testament
saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.
The Emphasized Bible
saying - This man, began to build, and was not able to finish!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And say 'Here is a man who began to build and was not able to finish!'
Webster
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Weymouth New Testament
saying, 'This man began to build, but could not finish.'
Williams New Testament
and say, 'This fellow started to erect a building but could not complete it!'
World English Bible
saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'
Worrell New Testament
saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to finish!'
Worsley New Testament
all that see it, should deride him, saying, this man began to build and was not able to finish.
Youngs Literal Translation
saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Themes
Disciples/apostles » Who cannot be a disciple of Christ
Hate » Those that do not hate their life in this world
Jesus Christ » History of » Teaches the multitude the conditions of discipleship (in peraea)
Parables » Parables of Christ » Builder of a tower
Topics
Interlinear
Houtos
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 14:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Cost Of Discipleship
29 "Lest it happen that after he has laid the foundations and is unable to complete it, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him saying, 30 "'This fellow began to build and could not finish.' 31 "Or what king as he goes forth to join battle with another king in war does not sit down first and deliberate whether he can meet with ten thousand men the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?
Names
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."
Matthew 27:3-8
Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.
Acts 1:18-19
"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.
1 Corinthians 3:11-14
The foundation is already laid??esus Christ??nd no man can lay another.
Hebrews 6:4-8
For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,
Hebrews 6:11
but I am longing that each of you continue to show the same diligence to realize the fulness of your hope, even to the end.
Hebrews 10:38
But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.
2 Peter 2:19-22
They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.)
2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have wrought, but that you receive a full reward.