But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
Parallel translations
- KJV But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
- BSB But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.
- NKJV But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the will of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.
- NASB But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God’s purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John.
- NLT But the Pharisees and experts in religious law rejected God’s plan for them, for they had refused John’s baptism.
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Cross-references · 8
- Luke 13:34“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
- 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
- Jer 8:8“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
- Matt 22:35One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
- Rom 10:21But as to Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
- Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
- Gal 2:21I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
- Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
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