Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?
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Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?
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Luke 14:29
For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,
Joshua 24:19
And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
Joshua 24:20
If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
Joshua 24:21
And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
Joshua 24:22
And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
Joshua 24:23
Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Joshua 24:24
And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
Joshua 24:15
And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
Ruth 1:15
And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.
Matthew 6:24
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
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Proverbs 24:27
Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
Matthew 21:33
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
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