Luke 7:30 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But the Pharisees and the lawyers [of the Mosaic Law] annulled and rejected and brought to nothing God's purpose concerning themselves, by [refusing and] not being baptized by him [John].

American Standard Version (1901)

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.

Common English Bible

But the Pharisees and legal experts rejected God’s will for themselves because they hadn’t been baptized by John.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But the Pharisees and the experts in the law despised the counsel of God concerning themselves, by not being baptized by him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

Luke 7:30 Cross References

Proverbs 1:25

and you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,

Jeremiah 8:8

“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.

Matthew 22:35

And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him.

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!

Luke 20:6

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us; for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Luke 7:31

“To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?

Acts 20:27

for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Romans 10:21

But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 2:21

I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification were through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.

Ephesians 1:11

In him, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will,