Luke 6:40 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁰ The disciple is not more important than his teacher, but when every person becomes complete, [then] he will be like his teacher.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ A pupil is not superior to his teacher, but everyone [when he is] completely trained (readjusted, restored, set to rights, and perfected) will be like his teacher.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ Disciples aren’t greater than their teacher, but whoever is fully prepared will be like their teacher.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ The disciple is not above his teacher. But each one will be perfected, if he is like his teacher.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁰ The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.

Luke 6:40 Cross References

Matthew 23:15

“It is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the Law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! For you travel over land and sea [in hope of] making one person a proselyte [i.e., a convert to the Jewish religion]. And when you do convert one, you make him twice as deserving of hell as yourselves.

Luke 6:41

And why do you look for the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye but ignore the board in your own eye?

John 13:16

Truly, truly, I tell you, a slave is not greater [in importance] than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the person who sent him.

John 15:20

But they [i.e., the world] will do all these things to you for my name’s sake [i.e., because you are my disciples], for they do not know Him [i.e., God], who sent me.