Luke 14:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

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  • Prov 24:27 : 27 Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
  • Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.
  • Luke 14:33 : 33 And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.
  • 1 Thess 3:4-5 : 4 And when we were with you, we said to you that trouble was before us; and so it came about, as you see. 5 For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.
  • 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory; 14 For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
  • Gen 11:4-9 : 4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. 6 And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs. 7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another. 8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. 9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
  • Josh 24:19-24 : 19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins. 20 If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good. 21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord. 22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses. 23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel. 24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
  • Matt 20:22-23 : 22 But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take? 23 They say to him, We are able. He says to them, Truly, you will take of my cup: but to be seated at my right hand and at my left is not for me to give, but it is for those for whom my Father has made it ready.

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  • Luke 14:29-33
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    85%

    29 For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,

    30 And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.

    31 Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

    32 Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.

    33 And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.

  • Luke 14:25-27
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    78%

    25 Now a great number of people went with him.

    26 And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

    27 Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.

  • Luke 12:17-18
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    71%

    17 And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.

    18 And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

  • Luke 6:46-49
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    46 Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

    47 Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

    48 He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

    49 But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.

  • Matt 16:24-26
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    24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.

    25 Because whoever has a desire to keep his life safe will have it taken from him; but whoever gives up his life because of me, will have it given back to him.

    26 For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

  • Matt 7:24-27
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    24 Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

    25 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.

    26 And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;

    27 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

  • Matt 10:38
    69%

    38 And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.

  • Luke 12:25-26
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    25 And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself any taller?

    26 If, then, you are not able to do even that which is least, why are you troubled about the rest?

  • Matt 6:27
    69%

    27 And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller?

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    69%

    20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

    21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

  • Mark 8:34-35
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    69%

    34 And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.

    35 Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.

  • Luke 9:23-25
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    23 And he said to them all, If any man has a desire to come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross every day, and come after me.

    24 For whoever has a desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, but whoever gives up his life because of me, will keep it.

    25 For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

  • Mark 13:2
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    2 And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? there is not one stone here resting on another which will not be overturned.

  • Luke 9:62
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    62 But Jesus said, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is good enough for the kingdom of God.

  • 1 Cor 3:10
    67%

    10 In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

  • Prov 24:27
    67%

    27 Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

  • Luke 17:7
    67%

    7 But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,

  • Mark 13:15
    67%

    15 And let him who is on the house-top not go down, or go in, to take anything out of his house:

  • Luke 6:39
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    39 And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?

  • Deut 20:6
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    6 Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
    66%

    7 Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

  • Luke 18:29
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    29 And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12 So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.

  • Matt 6:24-25
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    24 No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

    25 So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

  • Luke 12:15
    66%

    15 And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

  • Matt 12:29
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    29 Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.

  • Luke 21:34
    66%

    34 But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

  • Gen 11:4
    66%

    4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

  • Jas 4:13
    66%

    13 How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: