Luke 7:30 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses, who would not be immersed by John, rejected God’s purpose for themselves.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers [of the Mosaic Law] annulled and rejected and brought to nothing God's purpose concerning themselves, by [refusing and] not being baptized by him [John].

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.

Common English Bible

³⁰ But the Pharisees and legal experts rejected God’s will for themselves because they hadn’t been baptized by John.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the experts in the law despised the counsel of God concerning themselves, by not being baptized by him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

Luke 7:30 Cross References

Matthew 22:35

One of them, a teacher of the Law of Moses, asked Him a question [in an attempt] to test Him.

Luke 13:34

“O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you people who murdered the prophets and stoned those who were sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather you people together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Luke 20:6

But if we say ‘from men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Luke 7:31

“What then should I compare the people of this generation with?” [Jesus asked]. “And what are they like?

Acts 20:27

For I held nothing back in declaring to you the entire message of God.

Romans 10:21

But Isaiah said about the Israelites [Isa. 65:2], “I reached out all day long to [help] people who disobeyed and spoke against [me]. ”

2 Corinthians 6:1

As workers together with God we urge you also, who have received God’s unearned favor, do not allow it to be for nothing,

Galatians 2:21

[In doing this] I am not trying to disregard God’s unearned favor, for if a person could become right with God by [perfect obedience to the requirements of] the Law of Moses, then Christ died for nothing.

Ephesians 1:11

It is in [fellowship with] Christ that we [Jewish Christians] also were selected as [God’s] inheritance [i.e., to receive His never ending blessings], having been predetermined according to the plan of God, who works out everything in harmony with what He wants.