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the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

Lukas 14:29

Opdat niet misschien, als hij den grond gelegd heeft, en het niet kan uitvoeren, allen die het zien hem beginnen te bespotten,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Prudence;   Salvation;   Seekers;   Self-Denial;   Tower;   The Topic Concordance - Disciples/apostles;   Hate;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Foundation;   Parables;   Prudence;   Self-Denial;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Cross;   Disciple;   Teacher;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Christ, Christology;   Disciple, Discipleship;   Jesus Christ;   Work;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Family;   Luke, Gospel of;   Parables;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Matthew, Gospel According to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ambassage;   Ambition;   Chance;   Consciousness;   Discipleship;   Discourse;   Fellowship (2);   Forsaking All;   Ideas (Leading);   Organization (2);   Paradox;   Power;   Prudence;   Reality;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Disciple,;   Haply;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Foundation;   Hap;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Mock;  

Parallel Translations

Staten Vertaling
Opdat niet misschien, als hij het fondament gelegd heeft, en niet kan voleindigen, allen, die het zien, hem beginnen te bespotten.
Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Het zou anders kunnen gebeuren, dat, wanneer hij den grondslag had gelegd maar niet in staat was het gebouw te voltooien, allen die dat zien hem gaan bespotten;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 22:14 - I will Matthew 27:40 - that destroyest Ephesians 6:11 - able

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation,.... Has begun to build, has taken up a profession, has submitted to ordinances, and got into a church state:

and is not able to finish it; a foundation may be laid, and the building may never be finished, because the foundation is not laid right; was it, it would continue, and the building go on, and at last be finished; though no man is able to finish it of himself, yet those hands which have laid the foundation, will raise up the superstructure, and complete the whole building, through the power and efficacy of divine grace: but where there is a beginning, and which at first looks well, and there is no progress, but the work is dropped and left unfinished,

all that behold it, begin to mock; as follows;

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Haply - Perhaps.

To mock him - To ridicule him. To laugh at him.


 
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