Luke 14:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Matt 7:27 : 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 27:3-8 : 3 Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority, 4 Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business. 5 And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging. 6 And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood. 7 And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries. 8 For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day.
  • Acts 1:18-19 : 18 (Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there. 19 And this came to the knowledge of all those who were living in Jerusalem, so that the field was named in their language, Akel-dama, or, The field of blood.)
  • 1 Cor 3:11-14 : 11 For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ. 12 But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems; 13 Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work. 14 If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit, 5 With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time, 6 And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him. 7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God: 8 But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.
  • Heb 6:11 : 11 And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:
  • Heb 10:38 : 38 But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
  • 2 Pet 2:19-22 : 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him. 20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it. 22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

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

    28 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?

    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,

  • Luke 14:31-33
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    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.

  • 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.

  • 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 6:48-49
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    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.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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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;

    14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

  • Luke 12:16-18
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    16 And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

    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.

  • 1 Cor 3:10-11
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    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.

    11 For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ.

  • Mark 14:58
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    58 He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.

  • Mark 15:29
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    29 And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,

  • Gen 11:4
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    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.

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    16 Then this same Sheshbazzar came and put the house of God in Jerusalem on its bases: and from that time till now the building has been going on, but it is still not complete.

  • Luke 20:17
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    17 But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?

  • Neh 4:10-11
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    10 And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.

    11 And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.

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    6 As for these things which you see, the days will come when not one stone will be resting on another, but all will be broken down.

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    14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

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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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    18 When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

  • Dan 4:30
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    30 The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?

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    14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

  • Matt 24:2
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    2 But he, answering, said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you that here there will not be one stone resting on another, which will not be pulled down.

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    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.

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    18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

  • Ezek 13:12
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    12 And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?

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    61 But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.

  • Mark 12:10
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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:

  • Ezek 13:15
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    15 So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?

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    1 <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

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    6 So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

  • Eccl 10:14
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    14 The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

  • Prov 14:1
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    1 Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

  • Prov 24:31
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    31 And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14
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    14 So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

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    25 And if there is division in a house, that house will come to destruction;

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    16 And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people.