Luke 18:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁸ Then a certain ruler [Note: This man was young and rich. See Matt. 19:16-22] asked Jesus, “Good Teacher, what should I do in order to inherit never ending life?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And a certain ruler asked Him, Good Teacher [You who are essentially and perfectly morally good], what shall I do to inherit eternal life [to partake of eternal salvation in the Messiah's kingdom]?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Common English Bible

¹⁸ A certain ruler asked Jesus, “Good Teacher, what must I do to obtain eternal life?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And a certain leader questioned him, saying: "Good teacher, what should I do to possess eternal life?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And a certain ruler asked him, saying: Good master, what shall I do to possess everlasting life?

Luke 18:18 Cross References

Luke 18:19

Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me ‘good’? No one is good except God only.

Luke 6:46

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

Acts 16:30

After bringing them out [of the jail area] he said, “Sirs, what do I have to do to be saved?”

Acts 2:37

Now when the people heard this message [of Peter and the other apostles, See verse 14], they were convicted [of its truth] in their hearts and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do [about our condemned condition]?”