Luke 7:30 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 And the Pharisees, and they pertaining to the law, rejected the counsel of God against themselves, not immersed by him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the Pharisees and the lawyers [of the Mosaic Law] annulled and rejected and brought to nothing God's purpose concerning themselves, by [refusing and] not being baptized by him [John]. American Standard Version (1901) But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him. Common English Bible But the Pharisees and legal experts rejected God’s will for themselves because they hadn’t been baptized by John. Catholic Public Domain Version But the Pharisees and the experts in the law despised the counsel of God concerning themselves, by not being baptized by him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him. |
How shall ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah with us? Behold, surely for falsehood he made the style of the scribes a lie.
And one of them, skilled in the law, asked, tempting him, and saying,
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and striking with stones those having been sent to her; how often I wished to gather thy children together, which manner a hen her young brood under the wings, and ye would not!
And if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they are persuaded John to be a prophet.
And the Lord said, To whom shall I liken the men of this generation? and to whom are they like?
And to Israel he says, The whole day have I unfolded my hands to an unbelieving and contradicting people.
And working together, we also beseech, lest also ye receive the grace of God in vain.
I put not away the grace of God for if justice through the law, Christ died in vain.
In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will: