New Revised Standard Version
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?

Contemporary English Version
Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. What is the first thing you will do? Won't you sit down and figure out how much it will cost and if you have enough money to pay for it?

New American Bible
Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

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:

intending.

Genesis 11:4-9 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. . . .

Proverbs 24:27 Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.

counteth.

Luke 14:33 So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth cannot be my disciple.

Joshua 24:19-24 And Joshua said to the people: You will not be able to serve the Lord: for he is a holy God, and mighty and jealous, and will not forgive your wickedness and sins. . . .

Matthew 8:20 And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Matthew 10:22 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.

Matthew 20:22,23 And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can. . . .

Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered and said: What do you mean, weeping and afflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die also in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 3:4,5 For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should suffer tribulations: as also it is come to pass, and you know. . . .

2 Peter 1:13,14 But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. . . .