He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?
Parallel translations
- KJV Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?
- BSB Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?
- ESV He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?
- NKJV Then He said, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?
- NASB So He was saying, “What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it?
- NLT Then Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? How can I illustrate it?
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Cross-references · 8
- Mark 4:30–34He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
- Matt 13:31–32He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
- Luke 17:21neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”
- Mark 4:26He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
- Luke 13:20Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?
- Matt 13:24He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
- Lam 2:13What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
- Luke 7:31“To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?
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