For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my ways.”
Matthew 17:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Jesus answered, O you unbelieving (warped, wayward, rebellious) and thoroughly perverse generation! How long am I to remain with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to Me. American Standard Version (1901) And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him hither to me. Common English Bible Jesus answered, “You faithless and crooked generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour. |
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my ways.”
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may serve me.
The Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and instructions?
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
The Lord has poured into them a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all its doings as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?
“How long shall this wicked congregation complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, which they complain against me.
And becoming aware of it, Jesus said, “You of little faith, why are you talking about having no bread?
And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured from that moment.
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a dead calm.
Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table, and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
He answered them, “You faithless generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him to me.”
Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!
Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.”
And he testified with many other arguments and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”
I wish you would put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, do put up with me!
yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him, a perverse and crooked generation.