Bible verse
Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
Luke 14:29 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 14.
25 Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,
26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
27 And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
28 Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?
29 Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
30 saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
31 Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.
33 In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
KJV
Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish [it], all that behold [it] begin to mock him,
ASV
Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,
ERV
Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,
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