Luke 14:18 - Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ But they all alike began to make excuses and to beg off. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of land, and I have to go out and see it; I beg you, have me excused.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a field, and I must needs go out and see it; I pray thee have me excused.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ One by one, they all began to make excuses. The first one told him, ‘I bought a farm and must go and see it. Please excuse me.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And at once they all began to make excuses. The first said to him: 'I bought a farm, and I need to go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm, and I must needs go out and see it: I pray thee, hold me excused.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁸ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’

Luke 14:18 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom shall I [Jeremiah] speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised [never brought into covenant with God or consecrated to His service], and they cannot hear or obey. Behold, the word of the Lord has become to them a reproach and the object of their scorn; they have no delight in it.

Luke 14:17

And at the hour for the supper he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, Come, for all is now ready.

Luke 14:19

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine and put my approval on them; I beg you, have me excused.

Luke 18:24

Jesus, observing him, said, How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!

Luke 8:14

And as for what fell among the thorns, these are [the people] who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked and suffocated with the anxieties and cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not ripen (come to maturity and perfection).

John 1:11

He came to that which belonged to Him [to His own–His domain, creation, things, world], and they who were His own did not receive Him and did not welcome Him.

John 5:40

And still you are not willing [but refuse] to come to Me, so that you might have life.

Philippians 3:4

Though for myself I have [at least grounds] to rely on the flesh. If any other man considers that he has or seems to have reason to rely on the flesh and his physical and outward advantages, I have still more!

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas has deserted me for love of this present world and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens [has gone] to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Timothy 4:4

And will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions.

Hebrews 12:16

That no one may become guilty of sexual vice, or become a profane (godless and sacrilegious) person as Esau did, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. [Gen. 25:29-34.]