Luke 14:28

28 For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:

Luke 14:28 In-Context

26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
27 And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
28 For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:
29 Lest, after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him,
30 Saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish.
The Douay-Rheims Bible is in the public domain.