Matthew 3:15 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And responding, Jesus said to him: "Permit this for now. For in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all justice." Then he allowed him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ But Jesus replied to him, Permit it just now; for this is the fitting way for [both of] us to fulfill all righteousness [that is, to perform completely whatever is right]. Then he permitted Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffereth him.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Jesus answered, “Allow me to be baptized now. This is necessary to fulfill all righteousness.” So John agreed to baptize Jesus.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfill all justice. Then he suffered him.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁵ But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.

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Isaiah 42:21

And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and to exalt him.

Matthew 3:14

But John refused him, saying, "I ought to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?"

Luke 1:6

Now they were both just before God, progressing in all of the commandments and the justifications of the Lord without blame.

John 13:15

For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done for you, so also should you do.

John 15:10

If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father's precepts and I abide in his love.

John 4:34

Jesus said to them: "My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work.

John 8:29

And he who sent me is with me, and he has not abandoned me alone. For I always do what is pleasing to him."

Hebrews 7:26

For it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted higher than the heavens.

1 John 2:6

Whoever declares himself to remain in him, ought to walk just as he himself walked.