Luke 7:30 - Tree of Life Version But the Pharisees and Torah lawyers, not having been immersed by John, declared God’s purpose invalid for themselves. 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 can you say, ‘We are wise! The Torah of Adonai is with us’? In fact, it is the lying pen of the scribes that have made it a lie.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
But if we say, ‘From men,’ then all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John is a prophet.”
“So then, to what shall I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?
For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.
But about Israel He says, “All day long I stretched forth My hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
Since we are co-laboring, we also urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
I do not nullify the grace of God—for if righteousness comes through Torah, then Messiah died for no reason!
In Him we also were chosen, predestined according to His plan. He keeps working out all things according to the purpose of His will—