Luke 7:31 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³¹ “To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ So to what shall I compare the men of this generation? And what are they like?

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?

Common English Bible

³¹ “To what will I compare the people of this generation?” Jesus asked. “What are they like?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Then the Lord said: "Therefore, to what shall I compare the men of this generation? And to what are they similar?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

Luke 7:31 Cross References

Lamentations 2:13

What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For vast as the sea is your ruin; who can restore you?

Matthew 7:24

“Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

Mark 4:30

And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?

Luke 7:30

but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the market place and calling to one another, ‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.’