Luke 18:25

Murdock Translation

It is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle, than a rich man the kingdom of God.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

King James Version (1611)
For it is easier for a camel to goe thorow a needles eye, then for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

King James Version
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

English Standard Version
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

New American Standard Bible
"For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God!"

New Century Version
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

Amplified Bible
"For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man [who places his faith in wealth or status] to enter the kingdom of God."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Legacy Standard Bible
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Berean Standard Bible
Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Contemporary English Version
In fact, it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into God's kingdom."

Complete Jewish Bible
It's easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!"

Darby Translation
for it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Easy-to-Read Version
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter God's kingdom."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Surely it is easier for a camel to go through a needles eye, then for a riche man to enter into the kingdome of God.

George Lamsa Translation
It is easier for a rope to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Good News Translation
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."

Lexham English Bible
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.

Literal Translation
For it is easier for a camel to go in through a needle's eye than for a rich one to enter into the kingdom of God.

American Standard Version
For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Bible in Basic English
It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God.

Hebrew Names Version
For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

International Standard Version
Indeed, it is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."

Etheridge Translation
It is easier for a camel into the aperture of a needle to enter, than the rich into the kingdom of Aloha.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For it is easier for a camel to go through a nedles eye, then for a riche man to enter into the kyngdome of God.

English Revised Version
For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

World English Bible
For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Weymouth's New Testament
Why, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for it is liyter a camel to passe thorou a nedlis iye, than a riche man to entre in to the kyngdom of God.

Update Bible Version
For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Webster's Bible Translation
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

New English Translation
In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

New King James Version
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

New Living Translation
In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!"

New Life Bible
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go into the holy nation of God."

New Revised Standard
Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For it is, easier, for a camel, to enter, through the eye of a needle, than for, a rich man, to enter, into the kingdom of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Revised Standard Version
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
it is easyer for a camell to goo thorow a nedles eye then for a ryche man to enter into the kyngdome of God.

Young's Literal Translation
for it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to enter, than for a rich man into the reign of God to enter.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It is easyer for a Camell to go thorow the eye of a nedle, the for a rich man to entre in to the kyngdome of God.

Mace New Testament (1729)
it is easier for a cable to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Simplified Cowboy Version
As a matter of fact, it'd be easier for a Charolais bull to fit through a cinch ring than for a rich man to squeeze into God's outfit."

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ And one of the chiefs asked him, and said to him: Good Teacher, what shall I do, that I may inherit eternal life? ¹⁹ Jesus said to him: Why callest thou me, good? For, there is none good, except one; God. ²⁰ Thou knowest the commandments: Thou shalt not kill; and thou shalt not commit adultery; and thou shalt not steal; and thou shalt not testify a false testimony; honor thy father and thy mother. ²¹ He said to him: All these have I kept, from my childhood. ²² And when Jesus heard these [fn] , he said to him: One thing is lacking to thee: go, sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor; and thou wilt have a treasure in heaven; and come after me. ²³ And he, when he heard these [fn] , was dejected; for he was very rich. ²⁴ And when Jesus saw that he was dejected, he said: How difficult [fn] , for those that have wealth to enter into the kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle, than a rich man the kingdom of God. ²⁶ They who heard [fn] , said to him: Who then can have life? ²⁷ And Jesus said: Those things which, with men, cannot be, with God, can be.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a camel: Some render a cable; but it may justly be doubted whether ךבלחכןע [Strong's G2574] ever was so translated before, for the word for a cable, as the scholiast on Aristophanes expressly affirms, is written ךבליכןע, not with an "e" ח, but with an "i" י. Some few manuscripts, it is true, have got the word ךבליכןע into the text, but it is evidently an attempted improvement. Matthew 23:24

Reciprocal: Matthew 5:20 - ye Matthew 7:21 - shall Matthew 13:22 - the deceitfulness Matthew 19:24 - It Mark 10:25 - General Luke 1:53 - and Luke 8:14 - and are Luke 16:19 - rich 1 Corinthians 1:26 - not many mighty

Cross-References

2 Corinthians 5:10
10 For we are all to stand before the judgment-seat of the Messiah, that each may receive retribution in the body, [fn] what he hath done in it, whether of good, or whether of evil.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For it is easier for a camel,.... These words were spoken to the disciples again, and were a second address to them, after they had shown astonishment at the former;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 19:13-30.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 25. It as easier for a camel — Instead of καμηλον, a camel, S, and four other MSS., read καμιλου, a cable. See the same reading noticed on the parallel place, Matthew 19:24.