Luke 14:28
King James Version (KJV)
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
American Standard Version (ASV)
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have [wherewith] to complete it?
World English Bible (WEB)
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?
Luke 14:28 Cross References
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.