Luke 18:21

And he said, “All these I have kept from my youth.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.

In Context

20You know the commandments: ‘ Do not commit adultery,’ ‘ Do not murder,’ ‘ Do not steal,’ ‘ Do not bear false witness,’ ‘ Honor your father and your mother.’ ”

22So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, “Still one thing you lack: sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

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Cross References

Mark 10:20And he answered and said to Him, “Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth.”

Luke 15:29So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, so many years I have been serving you and I never transgressed your commandment; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

Romans 10:2For I testify concerning them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Matthew Henry on Luke 18:19-31

Riches a Spiritual Hindrance. 18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God. 20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. 21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. 22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that… Read the whole commentary →

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