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For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?
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Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him,
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saying, "This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.'
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Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?
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If he cannot, then, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for the terms of peace.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard)
