saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’
Parallel translations
- KJV Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
- BSB saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
- NKJV saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’?
- NASB saying, ‘This person began to build, and was not able to finish!’
- NLT They would say, ‘There’s the person who started that building and couldn’t afford to finish it!’
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Heb 6:11We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
- 2 Jn 1:8Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
- Heb 6:4–8For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
- 2 Pet 2:19–22promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
- Heb 10:38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
- Acts 1:18–19Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.
- 1 Cor 3:11–14For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
- Matt 27:3–8Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
- Matt 7:27The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell — and great was its fall.”
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