Luke 7:30

New English Translation

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

Cross References

Proverbs 1:25

because you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,

Jeremiah 8:8

How can you say, “We are wise! We have the law of the Lord”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.

Matthew 22:35

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

Luke 20:6

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Luke 7:31

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

Acts 20:27

For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

Romans 10:21

But about Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”

2 Corinthians 6:1

Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 2:21

I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will