Luke 8:39

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

““Return home and describe how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and proclaimed all over the town how much Jesus had done for him.”

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““Return home and describe how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and proclaimed all over the town how much Jesus had done for him.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Return to thy house, and declare how great things God hath done for thee. And he went his way, publishing throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done for him.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Turn back to thy house, and tell how great things God did to thee;' and he went away through all the city proclaiming how great things Jesus did to him.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 8:39 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 10:21He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
  2. Psalms 66:16Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.
  3. Psalms 126:2Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
  4. Daniel 4:1King Nebuchadnezzar, To the people of every nation and language who dwell in all the earth: May your prosperity be multiplied.
  5. Daniel 4:34But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
  6. Mark 1:45But the man went out and openly began to proclaim and spread the news. Consequently, Jesus could no longer enter a town in plain view, but He stayed out in solitary places. Yet people came to Him from every quarter.
  7. Luke 17:15When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.
  8. John 4:29“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
  9. 1 Timothy 5:8If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

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