Luke 3:14
Then the soldiers also questioned him, saying, “And what should we do?” And he said to them: “You should strike no one, and you should not make false accusations. And be content with your pay.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
13But he said to them, “You should do nothing more than what has been appointed to you.”
Cross References
Exodus 23:1“You shall not accept a lying voice. Neither shall you join your hand so as to give false testimony on behalf of the impious.
Matthew 8:5And when he had entered into Capernaum, a centurion approached, petitioning him,
Acts 10:7And when the Angel who was speaking to him had departed, he called, out of those who were subject to him, two of his household servants and a soldier who feared the Lord.
Philippians 2:15So may you be without blame, simple sons of God, without reproof, in the midst of a depraved and perverse nation, among whom you shine like lights in the world,
1 Timothy 6:8But, having nourishment and some kind of covering, we should be content with these.
Hebrews 13:5Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, “I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you.”
Matthew Henry on Luke 3:2-15
Ministry of John the Baptist. 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4 As it is… Read the whole commentary →