Matthew 19:17 - Modern English Version

¹⁷ He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One, that is, God. But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And He said to him, Why do you ask Me about the perfectly and essentially good? There is only One Who is good [perfectly and essentially]–God. If you would enter into the Life, you must continually keep the commandments.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And he said unto him, Why askest thou me concerning that which is good? One there is who is good: but if thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Jesus said, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There’s only one who is good. If you want to enter eternal life, keep the commandments.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And he said to him: "Why do you question me about what is good? One is good: God. But if you wish to enter into life, observe the commandments."

Matthew 19:17 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 9:29

“You warned them in order to restore them again to Your law, but they acted arrogantly and did not listen to Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances (which would enable a man to live, if he would do them), stubbornly turning away and becoming belligerent so that they would not hear.

Psalm 119:68

You are good and do good; teach me Your statutes.

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.

Ezekiel 20:21

Yet the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes, nor did they keep My judgments to do them, which if a man does them, he shall live. They polluted My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury upon them to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.

Leviticus 18:5

You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does them, then he shall live by them: I am the Lord.

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes about the righteousness which is based on the law: “The man who does those things shall live by them.”

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.

1 John 4:16

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

1 Samuel 2:2

“There is none holy as the Lord, for there is none besides You, and there is no rock like our God.