Luke 7:30 - New Revised Standard Version

³⁰ But by refusing to be baptized by him, the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God's purpose for themselves.)

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers [of the Mosaic Law] annulled and rejected and brought to nothing God's purpose concerning themselves, by [refusing and] not being baptized by him [John].

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.

Common English Bible

³⁰ But the Pharisees and legal experts rejected God’s will for themselves because they hadn’t been baptized by John.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the experts in the law despised the counsel of God concerning themselves, by not being baptized by him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

Luke 7:30 Cross References

Proverbs 1:25

and because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,

Jeremiah 8:8

How can you say, “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us,” when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie?

Matthew 22:35

and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.

Luke 13:34

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

Luke 20:6

But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ all the people will stone us; for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Luke 7:31

“To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

Acts 20:27

for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.

Romans 10:21

But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

2 Corinthians 6:1

As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 2:21

I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will,