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Matthew 19:17
Matthew 19:17 is verse 17 of Matthew chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“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.”
BYZ and TR 16...“Good Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?” 17 “Why do you call Me good?” See Mark 10:17–18 and Luke 18:18–19.
King James Version
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
World English Bible
He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
So MT and TR. NU reads “Why do you ask me about what is good?”
Read in context
Matthew 19:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 And after He had placed His hands on them, He went on from there.
16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”
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.”
18 “Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
19 honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Samuel 2:2There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
Psalms 52:1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
Psalms 145:7They will extol the fame of Your abundant goodness and sing joyfully of Your righteousness.
Psalms 145:8The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
Psalms 145:9The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
1 John 4:8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:9This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
1 John 4:10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Leviticus 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
Ezekiel 20:12I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
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.”
Romans 10:5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
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.”