Matthew 11:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ The Son of Man came eating and drinking [with others], and they say, Behold, a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and [especially wicked] sinners! Yet wisdom is justified and vindicated by what she does (her deeds) and by her children.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Yet the Human One came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved to be right by her works.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ The Son of man came eating and drinking; and they say, 'Behold, a man who eats voraciously and who drinks wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' But wisdom is justified by her sons."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.

Matthew 11:19 Cross References

Psalm 109:20

May that be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my life.

Proverbs 17:24

The discerning person looks to wisdom, but the eyes of a fool to the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 23:21

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.

Matthew 5:46

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Luke 14:1

On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely.

Luke 19:7

All who saw it began to grumble and said, “He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.”

Luke 7:29

(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

John 2:2

Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Romans 15:2

Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.

Revelation 7:12

singing, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”