Luke 14:29
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,
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30 And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;
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21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
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36 For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.
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14 There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.
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10 Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building: