Luke 6:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁰ A disciple is not above the teacher, but every disciple who is fully qualified will be like the 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

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Luke 6:41

Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own eye?

John 13:16

Very truly, I tell you, slaves are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them.

John 15:20

Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.