Luke 14:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and because of this I am unable to come. [Deut. 24:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And another said, 'I have taken a wife, and therefore I am not able to go.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Luke 14:20 Cross References

Luke 14:19

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

Luke 14:21

And the servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor and maimed and blind and lame.

1 Corinthians 7:33

but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

Deuteronomy 24:5

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife which he hath taken.