Mark 10:25
Good News Translation
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."

New Revised Standard Version
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.”

Contemporary English Version
In fact, it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into God's kingdom."

New American Bible
It is easier for a camel to pass through [the] eye of [a] needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Jeremiah 13:23 If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil.

Matthew 7:3-5 And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? . . .

Matthew 19:24,25 And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .

Matthew 23:24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

Luke 18:25 For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Context
The Rich Young Man
24And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus again answering, saith to them: Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God? 25It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 26Who wondered the more, saying among themselves: Who then can be saved?…
Cross References
Proverbs 11:28
He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.

Matthew 19:24
And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10:26
Who wondered the more, saying among themselves: Who then can be saved?

Luke 18:25
For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Mark 10:24
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