Luke 18:25
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Luke 18:25 in other translations
| BSB | Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” |
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| WEB | For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.” |
| ASV | For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
| YLT | for it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to enter, than for a rich man into the reign of God to enter.' |
| DARBY | for it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
| BBE | It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God. |
| Webster | For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
What does Luke 18:25 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 18:23-25
23-25. was very sorrowful--Matthew (Mt 19:22) more fully, "went away sorrowful"; Mark still more, "was sad" or "sullen" at that saying, and "went away grieved." Sorry he was, very sorry, to part with Christ; but to part with his riches would have cost him a pang more. When Riches or Heaven, on Christ's terms, were the alternative, the result showed to which side the balance inclined. Thus was he shown to lack the…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 18:18-30
Many have a great deal in them very commendable, yet perish for lack of some one thing; so this ruler could not bear Christ's terms, which would part between him and his estate. Many who are loth to leave Christ, yet do leave him. After a long struggle between their convictions and their corruptions, their corruptions carry the day. They are very sorry that they cannot serve both; but if one must be quitted, it…
Luke 18:25 in the original Greek
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Mt 23:24
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Context
- Luke 18:24
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
- Luke 18:25
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
- Luke 18:26
And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?
Luke 18:25 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque más fácil cosa es entrar un camello por el ojo de una aguja, que un rico entrar en el reino de Dios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car il est plus facile qu’un chameau entre par un trou d’aiguille, qu’un riche n’entre dans le royaume de Dieu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | denn es ist leichter, daß ein Kamel durch ein Nadelöhr eingehe, als daß ein Reicher in das Reich Gottes eingehe. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | facilius est enim camelum per foramen acus transire quam divitem intrare in regnum Dei. |