Luke 14:30 KJV — MannaFest

Luke 14:30

Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

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ASV

saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

WEB

saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’

YLT

saying--This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

DBT

saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?

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Luke — Luke's 'orderly account' (1:3) follows Jesus from Bethlehem through the long travel narrative to Jerusalem and the Emmaus road.

Author: Luke, beloved physician (Col 4:14), travel-companion of Paul
Date: c. AD 60–62

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10 verses on the floor

Hebrews 6:11
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
2 John 1:8
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Nehemiah 6:3
And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Hebrews 6:4–8
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
2 Peter 2:19–22
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. 3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

We lose the things we have wrought ( 2 John 8 ), and all we have done and suffered is in vain, Gal. iii. (2.) When we undertake to be Christ's disciples we are like a man that goes to war, and therefore must consider the hazard of it, and the difficulties that are to be encountered,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(2) Though the contest for salvation be on our part an awfully unequal one, the human will, in the exercise of that "faith which overcometh the world" (1Jo 5:4), and nerved by power from above, which "out of weakness makes it strong" (Heb 11:34;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

It is true, he that married was excused by the law from going to war for the first year ( Deut. xxiv. 5 ), but would that excuse him from going up to the feasts of the Lord, which all the males were yearly to attend? Much less will it excuse from the gospel feast, of which the other were but types.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

LUK 14:302JN 1:8 HEB 10:35
LUK 14:302JN 1:8 REV 3:11
LUK 14:302JN 1:8 1CO 3:14
LUK 14:302JN 1:8 1CO 3:8
LUK 14:30HEB 6:11 2PE 1:5-8
LUK 14:302JN 1:8 HEB 12:15
LUK 14:30HEB 6:11 ROM 5:2-5
LUK 14:30HEB 6:11 HEB 3:6

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