Luke 18:25 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For it is [actually] easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a wealthy person to enter the kingdom of God.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle's eye than [for] a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Common English Bible

It’s easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter God’s kingdom.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a wealthy man to enter into the kingdom of God."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Luke 18:25 Cross References

Matthew 19:24

And again I tell you, it is [actually] easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 23:24

You blind leaders, who strain out a [tiny] gnat [i.e., from your drinking water] and [yet] swallow a [whole] camel.

Matthew 9:5

For which is easier, to say ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or [to say] ‘Get up and walk?’

Mark 10:25

It is [actually] easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Luke 18:26

And those who heard this said, “Then who can [possibly] be saved?”