Matthew 11:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:”
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“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,”
King James Version · Public Domain“But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the marketplaces, who call unto their fellows”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Matthew 11:16 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Lamentations 2:13What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
- Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Matthew 23:36Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
- Matthew 24:34Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.
- Mark 4:30Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?
- Luke 7:31“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?
- Luke 13:18Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?
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