Luke 18:25

For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

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For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

In Context

24Then Jesus, seeing him, became very sad + 18:24 Scholars are divided whether the phrase: [he] became very sad should be included here. Compare vs 23. and said, “How difficult it is for those who are rich to enter the kingdom of God!

26Those hearing it said, “Then who can be saved?”

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Cross References

Matthew 23:24You blind guides, you who strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!

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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