Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to 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.'
Montgomery New Testament
"'This fellow began to build and could not finish.'
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.
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 that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him, 30 saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 31 'Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?
Names
Cross References
Matthew 7:27
and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'
Matthew 27:3-8
Then Judas -- he who delivered him up -- having seen that he was condemned, having repented, brought back the thirty silverlings to the chief priests, and to the elders, saying,
Acts 1:18-19
this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,
1 Corinthians 3:11-14
for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;
Hebrews 6:4-8
for it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 6:11
and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,
Hebrews 10:38
and 'the righteous by faith shall live,' and 'if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'
2 Peter 2:19-22
liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,
2 John 1:8
See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;