Luke 18:21
19 “Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.
20 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”
“All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.
22 On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
23 But when the ruler heard this, he became very sad, because he was extremely wealthy.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.
- KJV
- And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
- WEB
- He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”
- ASV
- And he said, All these things have I observed from my youth up.
- DARBY
- And he said, All these things have I kept from my youth.
- BLB
- And he said, “All these I kept from my youth.”
- ÅB
- Men han sa: Alt dette har jeg holdt fra min ungdom av.
- OTB
- Og han sa: “Alt dette har jeg holdt fra min ungdom.”
- B1930
- Men han sa: Alt dette har jeg holdt fra min ungdom av.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Philippians 3:6
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
Read in contextMatthew 19:20–21
“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”
Read in contextMark 10:20–21
“Teacher,” he replied, “all these I have kept from my youth.”
Read in contextLuke 18:11–12
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
Read in contextLuke 15:7
In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
Read in contextLuke 15:29
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
Read in contextRomans 10:2–3
For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.
Read in context