Luke 1:51 - Plain English Version

⁵¹ He does great things with his power, and he shows everyone that he is really strong. Some people reckon they are smart and strong, but God makes them nothing. They are like soldiers that get frightened of the enemy and run away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵¹ He hath shewed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵¹ He has shown strength and made might with His arm; He has scattered the proud and haughty in and by the imagination and purpose and designs of their hearts.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵¹ He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.

Common English Bible

⁵¹ He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered those with arrogant thoughts and proud inclinations.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵¹ He has accomplished powerful deeds with his arm. He has scattered the arrogant in the intentions of their heart.

Luke 1:51 Cross References

Genesis 11:8

So God made all the people talk in different languages. None of them could understand anything the other people were saying. So they stopped building their big city.

Genesis 6:5

God looked at the people on the earth, and he saw them doing lots of bad things. He knew the way they were thinking. They were thinking bad things all the time. God saw that the people were very bad.

Genesis 8:21

God smelled the meat cooking on that stone table, and he was happy. Then God said to himself, “People always just want to do bad things. They do that all their lives, from when they are little kids, right up until the time they die. But I will never again punish them the same way that I did this time. I will never again finish up everything that breathes air, and I will never again curse the earth. While the earth is still here, the seasons will stay the same. There will always be day and night, and every year there will be a hot time and a cold time, a wet season and a dry season. There will always be a right time to plant seeds for food, and a right time to get the food from those plants.”

Romans 1:21

The trouble was this. Even though people could work that out about God, they really didn’t want to know him. They didn’t want to say to him, “Thank you, you really are the true God.” They couldn’t think properly about him. They could only think in stupid ways. They didn’t understand anything.

1 Peter 5:5

Listen, you young people, it is like this. You have to listen carefully to your Christian leaders. Don’t think you are great or more important than other people. Think about what God says in his book. He says, “God is against people that think they are great, but he is good to people that know they are not great.”