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Luke 10:25

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

KJV

Καὶ ἰδοὺ νομικός τις ἀνέστη ἐκπειράζων αὐτόν, λέγων· διδάσκαλε, τί ποιήσας ζωὴν αἰώνιον κληρονομήσω;

Greek NT

Et ecce quidam legisperitus surrexit tentans illum, et dicens : Magister, quid faciendo vitam æternam possidebo ?

Vulgate

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and made trial of him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

ASV

And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him and saying, Master, what must I do to possess eternal life?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἰώνιος
aionios
adjective · 70×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διδάσκαλος
didaskalos
noun · 60×
ζωή
zoe
noun · 135×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κληρονομέω
kleronomeo
verb · 18×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
νομικός
nomikos
adjective · 9×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀνίστημι
anistemi
verb · 107×
ἐκπειράζω
ekpeirazo
verb · 6×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: αὐτὸν | WH/NIV: αὐτὸν | Treg/RP: + καὶ
  • αὐτὸν — SBLGNT
  • αὐτὸν — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + καὶ — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2196In response to the question about the first of the commandments, Jesus says: "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' the second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater…
§2822Our Father "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."95 He "is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish."96 His commandment is "that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another."97 This commandment summarizes all the others and expresses his entire will.

Cross-references

  • Acts 16:30 — And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
  • Gal 2:16 — Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the
  • Gal 3:12 — And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
  • Gal 3:18 — For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
  • John 5:39 — Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
  • John 6:28 — Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
  • John 8:6 — This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
  • Luke 18:18 — And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
  • Luke 18:18 — And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
  • Mark 10:17 — And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
  • Mark 12:28 — And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
  • Matt 19:16 — And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
  • Matt 19:16 — And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
  • Matt 22:34 — But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
  • Matt 22:35 — Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
  • Phil 3:9 — And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
  • Rom 2:13 — (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.