Luke 18:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich 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

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!

Matthew 9:5

For which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up and walk’?

Mark 10:25

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Luke 18:26

Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”