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Luke 18:21

But the leader said, "I have obeyed all these commands since I was a boy."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Obedience;   Riches;   Salvation;   Self-Righteousness;   Young Men;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Wealth;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hearing the Word of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zacchaeus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Torah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Perfection;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Commandments;   Common Life;   Discourse;   Keeping;   Property (2);   Social Life;   Wealth (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“I have kept all these from my youth,” he said.
King James Version (1611)
And he said, All these haue I kept from my youth vp.
King James Version
And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
English Standard Version
And he said, "All these I have kept from my youth."
New American Standard Bible
And he said, "All these things I have kept since my youth."
New Century Version
But the leader said, "I have obeyed all these commands since I was a boy."
Amplified Bible
He replied, "I have kept all these things from my youth."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he said, "All these things I have kept from my youth."
Legacy Standard Bible
And he said, "All these things I have kept from my youth."
Berean Standard Bible
"All these have I kept from my youth," he said.
Contemporary English Version
He told Jesus, "I have obeyed all these commandments since I was a young man."
Complete Jewish Bible
He replied, "I have kept all these since I was a boy."
Darby Translation
And he said, All these things have I kept from my youth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee saide, All these haue I kept from my youth.
George Lamsa Translation
He said to him, All these I have obeyed from my boyhood.
Good News Translation
The man replied, "Ever since I was young, I have obeyed all these commandments."
Lexham English Bible
And he said, "All these I have observed from my youth."
Literal Translation
And he said, I have kept all these from my youth.
American Standard Version
And he said, All these things have I observed from my youth up.
Bible in Basic English
And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.
Hebrew Names Version
He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up."
International Standard Version
The officialHe">[fn] replied, "I have kept all of these since I was a young man."
Etheridge Translation
He saith to him, These all have I kept from my childhood.
Murdock Translation
He said to him: All these have I kept, from my childhood.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he sayde: all these haue I kept from my youth vp.
English Revised Version
And he said, All these things have I observed from my youth up.
World English Bible
He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he said, All these have I kept from my childhood. Jesus hearing these things said to him, Yet lackest thou one thing:
Weymouth's New Testament
"All of those," he replied, "I have kept from my youth."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Which seide, Y haue kept alle these thingis fro my yongthe.
Update Bible Version
And he said, All these things I have observed from youth.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he said, All these have I kept from my youth.
New English Translation
The man replied, "I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth."
New King James Version
And he said, "All these things I have kept from my youth."
New Living Translation
The man replied, "I've obeyed all these commandments since I was young."
New Life Bible
The leader said, "I have obeyed all these Laws since I was a boy."
New Revised Standard
He replied, "I have kept all these since my youth."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, he, said - All these things, have I kept from my youth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who said: All these things have I kept from my youth.
Revised Standard Version
And he said, "All these I have observed from my youth."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he sayde: all these have I kept from my youthe.
Young's Literal Translation
And he said, `All these I did keep from my youth;'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But he sayde: All these haue I kepte fro my youth vp.
Mace New Testament (1729)
all these, said he, have I observ'd from my youth.
THE MESSAGE
He said, "I've kept them all for as long as I can remember."
Simplified Cowboy Version
The guy puffed out his chest in self-congratulations and said, "Been there. Done that. Got the t-shirt."

Contextual Overview

18 A religious leader asked Jesus, "Good Teacher, what must I do to get eternal life?" 19 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? Only God is good. 20 And you know his commands: ‘You must not commit adultery, you must not murder anyone, you must not steal, you must not tell lies about others, you must respect your father and mother ….'" 21 But the leader said, "I have obeyed all these commands since I was a boy." 22 When Jesus heard this, he said to the leader, "But there is still one thing you need to do. Sell everything you have and give the money to those who are poor. You will have riches in heaven. Then come and follow me." 23 But when the man heard Jesus tell him to give away his money, he was sad. He didn't want to do this, because he was very rich. 24 When Jesus saw that the man was sad, he said, "It will be very hard for rich people to enter God's kingdom. 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter God's kingdom." 26 When the people heard this, they said, "Then who can be saved?" 27 Jesus answered, "God can do things that are not possible for people to do."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 18:11, Luke 18:12, Luke 15:7, Luke 15:29, Matthew 19:20, Matthew 19:21, Mark 10:20, Mark 10:21, Romans 10:2, Romans 10:3, Philippians 3:6

Reciprocal: Luke 16:15 - Ye Romans 7:9 - For I

Cross-References

Genesis 11:5
Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower.
Genesis 11:7
Let's go down and confuse their language. Then they will not understand each other."
Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the oak trees of Mamre. It was the hottest part of the day, and Abraham was sitting at the door of his tent.
Genesis 18:24
What if there are fifty good people in that city? Will you still destroy it? Surely you will save the city for the fifty good people living there.
Exodus 3:8
Now I will go down and save my people from the Egyptians. I will take them from that land and lead them to a good land where they can be free from these troubles. It is a land filled with many good things. Many different people live in that land: the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Exodus 33:5
This was because the Lord said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stubborn people. I might destroy you even if I travel with you only a short time. So take off all your jewelry while I decide what to do with you.'"
Deuteronomy 8:2
And you must remember the entire trip that the Lord your God has led you through these 40 years in the desert. He was testing you. He wanted to make you humble. He wanted to know what is in your heart. He wanted to know if you would obey his commands.
Deuteronomy 13:3
Don't listen to them, because the Lord your God is testing you. He wants to know if you love him with all your heart and all your soul.
Joshua 22:22
"The Lord is our God! Again we say that the Lord is our God! And God knows why we did this thing. We want you to know also. You can judge what we did. If you think we did it because we are against the Lord or refuse to obey him, you can kill us today.
Job 34:22
There is no place dark enough for evil people to hide from God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said,.... That is, the ruler said to him, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions add; "to Jesus", as the Persic version expresses it;

all these have I kept from my youth up; :- where it is added, what lack I yet?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 19:13-30.


 
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