But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”
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But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”
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And he sayde: Thinges which are vnpossible with men are possible with God.
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And he said, The things which are vnpossible with men, are possible with God.
Cross-references (9)
Passages linked to Luke 18:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.
- Matthew 19:26 Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
- Luke 1:37 For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”
- Job 42:2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
- Genesis 18:14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
- Ephesians 1:19-20 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
- Daniel 4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
- Ephesians 2:4-10 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus; for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
- Zechariah 8:6 Yahweh of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says Yahweh of Armies.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 27 And he said, The things which are impossible…
27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
Ver. 27. See Mat 19:26.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then Peter said,.... "To him", as the Syriac and…
Then Peter said,.... "To him", as the Syriac and Arabic versions add; that is, to the Lord Jesus, as the Ethiopic version expresses it; who was always the most forward to speak on any occasion: he observing what was required of the young man, and how unwilling he was to comply with it, and the difficulty in every rich man's way of entrance into the kingdom of God, spoke as follows;
lo, we have left all: the Arabic version reads, "all ours"; all we had, our friends, trades, and worldly substance;
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and followed thee: in Mat 19:27 it is added, "what shall we have therefore"; referring to the promise of Christ, to the young man, that should he sell all he had, and give it to the poor, he should have treasure in heaven; See Gill on Mat 19:27.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. are possible with God] See on Luk_1:37. “There…
27. are possible with God] See on Luk_1:37. “There is nothing too hard for thee,” Jer_32:17; comp. Job_13:2; Zec_8:6.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) The things which are impossible with men.—The answer…
(27) The things which are impossible with men.—The answer is substantially the same as we find in the other Gospels, but it assumes in St. Luke something more of the form of a generalised axiom.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he said, The things which are impossible with…
And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. Yes, impossible, the Divine Teacher repeated, from a man"s point of view; impossible from the platform of legal obedience on which the young ruler (ver. 21) had taken his stand, or the Pharisee in his prayer (vers. 11, 12); but it was not impossible with God. He might give this salvation as a perfectly free gift, utterly undeserved, perfectly unmerited, as he did to the prodigal son when he returned, or to the publican when he beat his breast in almost voiceless mourning, or still more conspicuously, not many days later, to the penitent thief dying on the cross.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 18:27 The point of the whole episode is that…
18:27 The point of the whole episode is that salvation is impossible by human effort, but possible by the grace of God.
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