World English Bible
Luke 14:28
“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?”
Verse in context — Luke 14
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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.
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Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.
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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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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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saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.
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