New Revised Standard Version
saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’

Contemporary English Version
They will say, "You started building, but could not finish the job."

New American Bible
and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish.

Saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish.

Matthew 7:27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.

Matthew 27:3-8 Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and ancients, . . .

Acts 1:18,19 And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed out. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:11-14 For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid: which is Christ Jesus. . . .

Hebrews 6:4-8,11 For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, . . .

Hebrews 10:38 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

2 Peter 2:19-22 Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave. . . .

2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have wrought: but that you may receive a full reward.