Luke 14:30 Cross References - Worsley

³⁰ all that see it, should deride him, saying, this man began to build and was not able to finish.

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

³ Then Judas, who had betrayed Him, when he saw that He was condemned, being struck with remorse, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, ⁴ saying, I have sinned, for I have betrayed innocent blood: but they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. ⁵ And he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. ⁶ But the chief priests took up the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury of the temple, because it is the price of blood: ⁷ so they consulted together, and bought with them the potter's field for a burying-ground for strangers: ⁸ and therefore that field is called the field of blood to this day.

¹⁸ (Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling down on his face, burst asunder in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out: ¹⁹ (and it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field is called in their own dialect, Aceldama, that is, the field of blood:)

¹¹ For no one can lay any other foundation, but that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ: and if any build upon this foundation gold, ¹² silver, precious stones, or wood, hay, stubble; ¹³ every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is. ¹⁴ If any man's work abide, which he hath built upon it, he shall receive a reward:

⁴ who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the holy Spirit, ⁵ and of the good word of God, ⁶ and the powers of the gospel-age, and yet fall away, should be renewed again to repentance: since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God, and make an open example of Him. ⁷ For as the earth, which imbibeth the rain that is frequently coming upon it, and produceth herbs fit for those by whom it is cultivated, receiveth a blessing from God: ⁸ but that which bringeth forth thorns and briars, is rejected and near to a curse, (whose end is burning) so are they.

¹¹ And we desire that every one of you would shew the same diligence to acquire the full assurance of hope even unto the end:

³⁸ and the just shall live by faith, but if any draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by whom any one is vanquished, by him he is also enslaved. ²⁰ For if, after they had escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and vanquished by them, their last state is worse than the first; ²¹ for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than when they knew it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is returned to his own vomit, and, The swine that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

⁸ Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which ye have wrought, but that ye may receive a full reward.