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


In Context

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.'

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 14:29 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:29Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish [it,] all that behold [it] begin to mock him,

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:29For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:29Lest, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able ti finish it, all that see it begin to mock him,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:29Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:29in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:29Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:29Lest perhaps after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:29lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:29Lest haply, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,