Luke 11:28

And He said, “Indeed, rather, blessed those hearing the word of God, and keeping [it]!”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

In Context

27And it came to pass, in His saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to Him, “Blessed the womb that carried You, and the breasts that You sucked!”

29And the multitudes crowding together on Him, He began to say, “This generation is evil, it seeks after a sign, and a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet,

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Cross References

Psalms 112:1Praise YAH! [ALEPH-BET] O the blessedness of one fearing YHWH, || He has greatly delighted in His commands.

Psalms 128:1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. O the blessedness of everyone fearing YHWH, || Who is walking in His ways.

Matthew 7:21Not everyone who is saying to Me, Lord, Lord, will come into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is doing the will of My Father who is in the heavens.

Luke 6:47Everyone who is coming to Me, and is hearing My words, and is doing them, I will show you to whom he is like:

John 13:17if you have known these things, you are blessed if you may do them;

1 John 3:21Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

Matthew Henry on Luke 11:28-29

Praise and a Blessing. 27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. 28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. We had not this passage in the other evangelists, nor can we tack it, as Dr. Hammond does, to that of Christ's mother and brethren desiring to speak with him (for this evangelist also has related that in ch. viii. 19… Read the whole commentary →

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