Luke 20:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁸ Every person who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but whoever it falls on will be scattered like dust.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Everyone who falls on that Stone will be broken [in pieces]; but upon whomever It falls, It will crush him [winnow him and scatter him as dust]. [Isa. 8:14, 15; Dan. 2:34, 35.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Every one that falleth on that stone shall be broken to pieces; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Everyone who falls on that stone will be crushed. And the stone will crush the person it falls on.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Everyone who falls on that stone will be shattered. And anyone upon whom it falls will be crushed."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Whosoever shall fall upon that stone, shall be bruised: and upon whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Luke 20:18 Cross References

Matthew 21:34

And when the season for harvesting the grapes approached, the owner of the farm sent his slaves to the tenant farmers to arrange for delivery of his crop.

Matthew 21:44

And the person who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but whoever it falls on will be scattered like dust.”

1 Thessalonians 2:16

for they [even] try to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles, so that they can be saved. [In doing this] they are always piling up one sin on another. But the wrath [of God] has come upon them at last [or, “completely”].