Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
21 The man replied, "Ever since I was young, I have obeyed all these commandments."
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“All these I have kept since I was a boy,” he said.
22 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is still one more thing you need to do. Sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me."
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When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
23 But when the man heard this, he became very sad, because he was very rich.
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When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was very wealthy.
24 Jesus saw that he was sad and said, "How hard it is for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!
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Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
25 It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle."
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Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
26 The people who heard him asked, "Who, then, can be saved?"
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Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”
27 Jesus answered, "What is humanly impossible is possible for God."
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Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
28 Then Peter said, "Look! We have left our homes to follow you."
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Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!”
29 "Yes," Jesus said to them, "and I assure you that anyone who leaves home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the Kingdom of God
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“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
30 will receive much more in this present age and eternal life in the age to come."
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will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”
31 Jesus took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, "Listen! We are going to Jerusalem where everything the prophets wrote about the Son of Man will come true.
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Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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