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New Life Version

Luke 18:21

The leader said, "I have obeyed all these Laws 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.
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.
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 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 leader of the people asked Jesus, "Good Teacher, what must I do to have life that lasts forever?" 19 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? There is only One Who is good. That is God. 20 You know the Laws. You must not do any sex sins. You must not kill another person. You must not steal. You must not tell a lie about someone else. Respect your father and your mother." 21 The leader said, "I have obeyed all these Laws since I was a boy." 22 When Jesus heard this, He said to the leader of the people, "There is still one thing you need to do. Sell everything you have. Give the money to poor people. Then you will have riches in heaven. Come and follow Me." 23 When the leader heard this, he was very sad because he had many riches. 24 When Jesus saw that he was very sad, He said, "It is hard for those with riches to go into the holy nation of God! 25 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." 26 Those who heard this, said, "Then who can be saved from the punishment of sin?" 27 Jesus said, "God can do things men cannot 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 that the sons of men had built.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let Us go down and mix up their language so they will not understand what each other says."
Genesis 18:1
The Lord showed Himself to Abraham by the oak trees of Mamre, as he sat at the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:24
What if there are fifty good people within the city? Will You destroy the place and not save it because of the fifty good people in it?
Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to save them from the power of the Egyptians. I will bring them out of that land to a good big land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Exodus 33:5
For the Lord had said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a strong-willed people. If I go with you even for just a little time, I would destroy you. So take off your objects of gold and silver that I may know what to do with you.'"
Deuteronomy 8:2
You will remember all the way the Lord your God led you in the desert these forty years, so you would not have pride, and how He tested you to know what was in your heart to see if you would obey His Laws or not.
Deuteronomy 13:3
do not listen to the words of that man who tells you what will happen or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is putting you to the test to see if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua 22:22
"The Powerful One, the Lord, the Powerful One, God, the Lord! He knows! And may Israel itself know! If it was going against the Lord and not being faithful to Him, do not save us this day!
Job 34:22
There is no darkness or shadow where sinners can hide themselves.

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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