28For 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?


In Context

25 Now 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.

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?

29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

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

Luke 14:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:28For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have [sufficient] to finish [it? ]

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:28"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:28For which of you having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down, and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:28For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what is needed to complete it;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:28For which of you intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he hath sufficient to finish it?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:28'For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:28For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?