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Read›Luke›Chapter 14

The Parable of the Banquet

Luke 14:20

In 9 translations

BSB
Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, so I cannot come.’
KJV
And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
WEB
“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’
ASV
And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
LSV
And another said, I married a wife, and because of this I am not able to come.
YLT
and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.
DBY
And another said, I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.
DRC
And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
GNV
And another said, I haue maried a wife, and therefore I can not come.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ ἕτερος εἶπεν· Γυναῖκα ἔγημα καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὐ δύναμαι ἐλθεῖν.
RP2018
Καὶ ἕτερος εἶπεν, Γυναῖκα ἔγημα, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὐ δύναμαι ἐλθεῖν.
TR-Boyd
Καὶ ἕτερος εἶπε, Γυναῖκα ἔγημα, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὐ δύναμαι ἐλθεῖν.
SCR1894
και ετερος ειπεν γυναικα εγημα και δια τουτο ου δυναμαι ελθειν

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◆ Teaching and Healing in Perea to Jerusalem

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 24:5If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
  • 1 Corinthians 7:33But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife,
  • Luke 18:29–30“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come,…
  • Luke 14:26–28“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot…
  • 1 Corinthians 7:29–31What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a…

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