Luke 13:25 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁵ Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, leaving you standing outside knocking on the door, [and] saying, ‘Sir, [please] open [the door] for us,’ and he answers you, ‘I do not know you or where you came from,’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ When once the Master of the house gets up and closes the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door [again and again], saying, Lord, open to us! He will answer you, I do not know where [what household–certainly not Mine] you come from.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he shall answer and say to you, I know you not whence ye are;

Common English Bible

²⁵ Once the owner of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ He will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you are from.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Then, when the father of the family will have entered and shut the door, you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us.' And in response, he will say to you, 'I do not know where you are from.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ But when the master of the house shall be gone in, and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand without, and knock at the door, saying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are.

Luke 13:25 Cross References

Matthew 25:41

Then He [i.e., the King] will say to those at His left side, ‘Go away from me, you who are cursed [by God], into the never ending fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels.

Luke 13:27

And He will say [i.e., the Lord is represented as saying this in the judgment. See Matt. 7:23; 8:11- 12], ‘I tell you, I do not know where you came from, [so] go away from me, all you people who have done sinful things.’

Luke 3:8

Demonstrate by your lives that you have [really] repented, and quit saying to yourselves, ‘We claim Abraham as our forefather,’ because I tell you, God is able to make Abraham’s children out of these stones.

Luke 6:46

“And why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and [yet] not obey what I tell you to do?

2 Corinthians 6:2

for God said [Isa. 49:8], “I listened to you at the right time [i.e., when you needed my favor], and I helped you on the day of your salvation.” Look, now is the right time [to accept God’s favor]; now is the day of salvation.

Hebrews 12:17

For you recall how, even after he [later] wanted to inherit the blessing, Esau was rejected [by his father Isaac. See Gen. 37:35- 40]. For he was not able to get his father to change his mind, even though he tearfully begged him [or, “he was not able to change the situation, even though he shed tears over his loss”].