Luke 14:28

World English Bible (2000)

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?

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  • Prov 24:27 : 27 Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
  • Matt 8:20 : 20 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
  • Luke 14:33 : 33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.
  • 1 Thess 3:4-5 : 4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know. 5 For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
  • 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you; 14 knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
  • Gen 11:4-9 : 4 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. 7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." 8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
  • Josh 24:19-24 : 19 Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins. 20 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good." 21 The people said to Joshua, "No; but we will serve Yahweh." 22 Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him." They said, "We are witnesses." 23 "Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel." 24 The people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice."
  • Matt 20:22-23 : 22 But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able." 23 He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

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  • Luke 14:29-33
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    29Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

    30saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'

    31Or 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?

    32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

    33So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.

  • Luke 14:25-27
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    25Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

    26"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

    27Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.

  • Luke 12:17-18
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    17He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

    18He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

  • Luke 6:46-49
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    46"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?

    47Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

    48He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

    49But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."

  • Matt 16:24-26
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    24Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

    25For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

    26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

  • Matt 7:24-27
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    24"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

    25The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.

    26Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

    27The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."

  • Matt 10:38
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    38He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me.

  • Luke 12:25-26
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    25Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?

    26If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

  • Matt 6:27
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    27"Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    20"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

    21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

  • Mark 8:34-35
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    34He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

    35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

  • Luke 9:23-25
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    23He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

    24For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

    25For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

  • Mark 13:2
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    2Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."

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    62But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."

  • 1 Cor 3:10
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    10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

  • Prov 24:27
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    27Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

  • Luke 17:7
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    7But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'

  • Mark 13:15
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    15and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.

  • Luke 6:39
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    39He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?

  • Deut 20:6
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    6What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

  • Luke 18:29
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    29He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.

  • Matt 6:24-25
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    24"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

    25Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

  • Luke 12:15
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    15He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

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    29Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

  • Luke 21:34
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    34"So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

  • Gen 11:4
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    4They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

  • Jas 4:13
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    13Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."