Luke 14:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Another said, ‘I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and because of this I am unable to come. [Deut. 24:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And another said, 'I have taken a wife, and therefore I am not able to go.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Luke 14:20 Cross References

Luke 14:19

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please accept my regrets.’

Luke 14:21

So the slave returned and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’

1 Corinthians 7:33

but the married man is anxious about the affairs of the world, how to please his wife,

Deuteronomy 24:5

“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any related duty. He shall be free at home one year, to be happy with the wife whom he has married.