Luke 14:29
Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
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- Luke 14:30-312 verses91%
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 14:27-282 verses85%
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?
- Luke 6:48-492 verses72%
48 He 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.
49 But 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."
- 1 Cor 3:10-123 verses71%
10 According 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.
11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
- Matt 7:24-274 verses71%
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.
25 The 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.
26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."
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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."
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29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
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12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
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2 Jesus 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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1 Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
- Luke 12:17-182 verses68%
17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
18 He 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.
- Jer 22:13-142 verses68%
13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
14 who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
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4 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.
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12 Behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?
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14 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
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1 But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
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18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
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17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'
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39 He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?
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40 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:
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5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
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16 Then the same Sheshbazzar came, and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now has it been in building, and yet it is not completed.
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1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
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36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
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18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
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2 But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don't you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down."
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6 "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."
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14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
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7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
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33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.
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12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
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15 and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.
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11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
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7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
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42 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
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22 Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
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14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
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10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.