For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.”
Matthew 17:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) And Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear 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 who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.”
So Moses and Aaron went in 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, that they may serve me.
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
“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 sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all her doings as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them?
“How long shall this wicked congregation murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against me.
But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O men of little faith, why do you discuss among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?
And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly.
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?
And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O men of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table; and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”
And he said to them, “O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing.”
And he testified with many other words and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
They have dealt corruptly with him, they are no longer his children because of their blemish; they are a perverse and crooked generation.