though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
Parallel translations
- KJV Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
- BSB Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.
- NKJV though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
- NASB Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.
- NLT Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered.
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- Phil 2:8And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
- Heb 10:5–9Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me.
- John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
- Isa 50:5–6The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
- John 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
- John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
- Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
- Heb 1:8But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
- Heb 1:5For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”
- Matt 3:15But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
- Heb 1:2has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
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