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Luke 18:20
Luke 18:20 is verse 20 of Luke chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”
Exodus 20:12–16; Deuteronomy 5:16–20
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”
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Luke 18:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 Then a certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
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.’”
21 “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.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Luke 10:26“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”
Luke 10:27He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Luke 10:28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
Matthew 19:17“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”
Matthew 19:18“Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
Matthew 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Mark 10:18“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.
Mark 10:19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
Romans 7:8But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Romans 7:9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
Romans 7:10So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
Romans 7:11For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Exodus 20:13You shall not murder.
Exodus 20:14You shall not commit adultery.
Exodus 20:15You shall not steal.
Exodus 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Exodus 20:17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Deuteronomy 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 5:17You shall not murder.
Deuteronomy 5:18You shall not commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 5:19You shall not steal.
Deuteronomy 5:20You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Deuteronomy 5:21You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Romans 13:9The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 3:10All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Galatians 3:11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
Galatians 3:12The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
Galatians 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
Ephesians 6:2“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Colossians 3:20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
James 2:8If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
James 2:9But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
James 2:10Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
James 2:11For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.