Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.
Parallel translations
- KJV Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
- BSB Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
- NKJV Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny.
- NASB Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last quadrans.
- NLT And if that happens, you surely won’t be free again until you have paid the last penny.
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Cross-references · 7
- Matt 18:34His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.
- Luke 12:59I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny. ”
- Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
- 2 Th 1:9who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
- Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
- Matt 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Luke 16:26Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’
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