Matthew 11:26

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“Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.”

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BSBPD

“Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“yea, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before Thee.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Matthew 11:26 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
  2. Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
  3. Luke 10:21At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
  4. Romans 9:18Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
  5. Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
  6. Ephesians 1:9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
  7. 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,
  8. Ephesians 3:11according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  9. 2 Timothy 1:9He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

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