Luke 7:30

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“But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.”

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BSBPD

“But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 7:30 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Jeremiah 8:8How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
  2. Matthew 22:35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
  3. Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
  4. Acts 20:27For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.
  5. Romans 10:21But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
  6. 2 Corinthians 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
  7. Galatians 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.
  8. Ephesians 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

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