They will say, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’

Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!

Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!”

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him.

But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!