Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
Luke 7:29 - New International Version (Anglicised) (All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right, because they had been baptised by John. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And all the people who heard Him, even the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God [in calling them to repentance and in pronouncing future wrath on the impenitent], being baptized with the baptism of John. American Standard Version (1901) And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. Common English Bible Everyone who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice because they had been baptized by John. Catholic Public Domain Version And upon hearing this, all the people and the tax collectors justified God, by being baptized with the baptism of John. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John's baptism. |
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?
But if we say, “Of human origin,” all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet.’
Even tax collectors came to be baptised. ‘Teacher,’ they asked, ‘what should we do?’
I tell you, among those born of women there is no-one greater than John; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.’
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervour and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John.
So Paul asked, ‘Then what baptism did you receive?’ ‘John’s baptism,’ they replied.
Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: ‘Great and marvellous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the nations.
Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: ‘You are just in these judgments, O Holy One, you who are and who were;
Then Adoni-Bezek said, ‘Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.’ They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.