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Good News Translation

Luke 18:21

The man replied, "Ever since I was young, I have obeyed all these commandments."

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the leader said, "I have obeyed all these commands since I was a boy."
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.
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 Jewish leader asked Jesus, "Good Teacher, what must I do to receive eternal life?" 19 "Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "No one is good except God alone. 20 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery; do not commit murder; do not steal; do not accuse anyone falsely; respect your father and your mother.'" 21 The man replied, "Ever since I was young, I have obeyed all these commandments." 22 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is still one more thing you need to do. Sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me." 23 But when the man heard this, he became very sad, because he was very rich. 24 Jesus saw that he was sad and said, "How hard it is for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God! 25 It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle." 26 The people who heard him asked, "Who, then, can be saved?" 27 Jesus answered, "What is humanly impossible is possible for God."

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 which they had built,
Genesis 11:7
Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."
Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to Abraham at the sacred trees of Mamre. As Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day,
Genesis 18:24
If there are fifty innocent people in the city, will you destroy the whole city? Won't you spare it in order to save the fifty?
Exodus 3:8
and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live.
Exodus 33:5
For the Lord had commanded Moses to tell them, "You are a stubborn people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I would completely destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you."
Deuteronomy 8:2
Remember how the Lord your God led you on this long journey through the desert these past forty years, sending hardships to test you, so that he might know what you intended to do and whether you would obey his commands.
Deuteronomy 13:3
do not pay any attention to them. The Lord your God is using them to test you, to see if you love the Lord with all your heart.
Joshua 22:22
"The Mighty One is God! He is the Lord ! The Mighty One is God! He is the Lord ! He knows why we did this, and we want you to know too! If we rebelled and did not keep faith with the Lord , do not let us live any longer!
Job 34:22
There is no darkness dark enough to hide a sinner 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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