Luke 7:30

Good News Translation

But the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law rejected God's purpose for themselves and refused to be baptized by John.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:25

You have ignored all my advice and have not been willing to let me correct you.

Jeremiah 8:8

How can you say that you are wise and that you know my laws? Look, the laws have been changed by dishonest scribes.

Matthew 22:35

and one of them, a teacher of the Law, tried to trap him with a question.

Luke 13:34

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!

Luke 20:6

But if we say, ‘From human beings,’ this whole crowd here will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Luke 7:31

Jesus continued, “Now to what can I compare the people of this day? What are they like?

Acts 20:27

For I have not held back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

Romans 10:21

But concerning Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to welcome a disobedient and rebellious people.”

2 Corinthians 6:1

In our work together with God, then, we beg you who have received God's grace not to let it be wasted.

Galatians 2:21

I refuse to reject the grace of God. But if a person is put right with God through the Law, it means that Christ died for nothing!

Ephesians 1:11

All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning.