Luke 7:27

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“This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’”

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BSBPD

“This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“this is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 7:27 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 40:3A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
  2. Malachi 3:1“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
  3. Malachi 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
  4. Matthew 11:10This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’
  5. Mark 1:2As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.”
  6. Luke 1:15for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
  7. Luke 1:76And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,
  8. John 1:23John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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