Luke 16:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Until John came, there were the Law and the Prophets; since then the good news (the Gospel) of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone strives violently to go in [would force his own way rather than God's way into it].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Until John, there was only the Law and the Prophets. Since then, the good news of God’s kingdom is preached, and everyone is urged to enter it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ The law and the prophets were until John. Since then, the kingdom of God is being evangelized, and everyone acts with violence toward it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ The law and the prophets were until John; from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one useth violence towards it.

Luke 16:16 Cross References

Matthew 10:7

And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 15:11

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Matthew 21:32

For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

Matthew 3:2

and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 4:17

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 4:23

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Mark 1:14

Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

Mark 1:45

But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.

Luke 10:11

Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding, be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

Luke 10:9

and heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

Luke 16:29

Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

Luke 16:31

And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

Luke 9:2

And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

John 1:45

Philip findeth Nathan´a-el, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

John 11:48

If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him; and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.

John 12:19

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.

John 5:4

For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

Acts 3:18

But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.