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Matthew 11:26
Matthew 11:26 is verse 26 of Matthew chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
King James Version
Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
World English Bible
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
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Matthew 11:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible
24 But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
25 At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
26 Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
27 All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
Luke 10:21At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
Romans 9:18Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
Romans 11:35“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”
Romans 11:36For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.
Ephesians 1:9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
Ephesians 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
Ephesians 3:11according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Timothy 1:9He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.