Luke 7:31 - Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ So to what shall I compare the men of this generation? And what are they like?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?

Common English Bible

³¹ “To what will I compare the people of this generation?” Jesus asked. “What are they like?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Then the Lord said: "Therefore, to what shall I compare the men of this generation? And to what are they similar?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

English Standard Version 2016

³¹ “To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

Luke 7:31 Tagairtí Cros

Lamentations 2:13

What [example of suffering in the past] is sufficient for me to remind you for your [comfort]? To what shall I liken you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? With what shall I compare you, that I may comfort you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your ruin is as measureless as the sea! Who can heal you? [Lam. 1:12; Dan. 9:12.]

Matthew 7:24

So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts upon them [obeying them] will be like a sensible (prudent, practical, wise) man who built his house upon the rock.

Mark 4:30

And He said, With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use to illustrate and explain it?

Luke 7:30

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].

Luke 7:32

They are like little children sitting in the marketplace, calling to one another and saying, We piped to you [playing wedding], and you did not dance; we sang dirges and wailed [playing funeral], and you did not weep.