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Luke 14:30
Saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish.
Luke 14:30 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Luke 14:30 in other translations
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
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In context
27 And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
28 For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:
29 Lest, after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him,
30 Saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish.
31 Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him?
32 Or else, while the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of peace.
33 So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth cannot be my disciple.
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