Luke 14:29
World English Bible (WEB)
Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
In context
27 Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.
28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
30 saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
31 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:29 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
- KJV King James Version
- Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
- ASV American Standard Version
- Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,
- DBY Darby Translation
- in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,
- WBS Webster Bible
- Lest perhaps after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it , all that behold it begin to mock him,