Luke 6:40 - Easy To Read Version

⁴⁰ A student is not better than his teacher. But when the student has fully learned, then he will be like his teacher.

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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 will be bad for you teachers of the law and Pharisees. {\cf2\super [336]} You are hypocrites. {\cf2\super [337]} You travel across the seas and across different countries to find one person that will follow your ways. When you find that person, you make him worse than you are. And you are so bad that you belong in hell!

Luke 6:41

“Why do you notice the small piece of dust that is in your brother’s eye, but you don’t see the big piece of wood that is in your own eye?

John 13:16

I tell you the truth. A servant is not greater than his master. The person that is sent to do something is not greater than the one that sent him.

John 15:20

Remember the lesson I told you: A servant is not greater than his master. If people did wrong to me, then they will do wrong to you too. And if people obeyed my teaching, then they will obey yours too.