Luke 18:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

Luke 18:19 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? …
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Hebrews 7:26
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Topics

Atheism Atonement Attributes of God Avarice Beneficence Care Carnal Mindedness Children

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-30)

In these verses we have, I. Christ’s discourse with a ruler, that had a good mind to be directed by him in the way to heaven. In which we may observe, 1. It is a blessed sight to see persons of distinction in the world distinguish themselves from others of their rank by their concern about their souls and another life. Luke takes notice of it that he was a ruler. Few of the rulers had any esteem f…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. Why, &c.--Did our Lord mean then to teach that God only ought to be called “good?” Impossible, for that had been to contradict all Scripture teaching, and His own, too (Psa 112:5; Mt 25:21; Tit 1:8). Unless therefore we are to ascribe captiousness to our Lord, He could have had but one object--to raise the youth’s ideas of Himself, as not to be classed merely with other “good masters,” and dec…