Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts.
Parallel translations
- KJV Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
- BSB Do not carry any gold or silver or copper in your belts.
- NKJV Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts,
- NASB Do not acquire gold, or silver, or copper for your money belts,
- NLT “Don’t take any money in your money belts—no gold, silver, or even copper coins.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Luke 22:35He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”
- Luke 9:3–5He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey — neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.
- Mark 6:8–11He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
- Luke 10:4–12Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.
- 1 Cor 9:7–27What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
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