Luke 1:38 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁸ And Mary said, “Here I am, the Lord’s slave-girl; let it happen to me according to what you say.” Then the angel left her.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ Then Mary said, Behold, I am the handmaiden of the Lord; let it be done to me according to what you have said. And the angel left her.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ And Mary said, Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

Common English Bible

³⁸ Then Mary said, “I am the Lord’s servant. Let it be with me just as you have said.” Then the angel left her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ Then Mary said: "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be done to me according to your word." And the Angel departed from her.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

Luke 1:38 Cross References

Luke 1:37

For nothing that God says [will happen] is impossible.”

Luke 1:39

About that time Mary made a hurried trip to a Judean town in the hill country. [Note: This was the same province in which Jerusalem was located].

Luke 1:48

For He has looked favorably on the humble circumstances of His servant-girl. And consider this, all generations of people will call me ‘blessed’ from now on.

Galatians 4:22

For it is written in the law about Abraham’s two sons [Gen. 16]; one [was] by his slave woman [Hagar] and the other by the free woman, [his wife, Sarah].