Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
- BSB Jesus answered, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.
- NKJV Jesus answered and said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.
- NASB Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and the women are given in marriage,
- NLT Jesus replied, “Marriage is for people here on earth.
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Cross-references · 5
- Luke 16:8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
- Luke 17:27They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
- Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- 1 Cor 7:2–16But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- Eph 5:31“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
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