Luke 12:59 I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny."

◄ Luke 12:59 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny."

English Standard Version
I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny.”

New American Standard Bible
"I say to you, you will not get out of there until you have paid the very last cent."

King James Bible
I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last cent."

International Standard Version
I tell you, you will never get out of there until you pay back the last penny!"

American Standard Version
I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the very last mite.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence, until thou pay the very last mite.

Darby Bible Translation
I say unto thee, Thou shalt in no wise come out thence until thou hast paid the very last mite.

Young's Literal Translation
I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till even the last mite thou mayest give back.'

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

12:54-59 Christ would have the people to be as wise in the concerns of their souls as they are in outward affairs. Let them hasten to obtain peace with God before it is too late. If any man has found that God has set himself against him concerning his sins, let him apply to him as God in Christ reconciling the world to himself. While we are alive, we are in the way, and now is our time.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

58. When thou goest, &c.—(See on [1654]Mt 5:25, 26). The urgency of the case with them, and the necessity, for their own safety, of immediate decision, was the object of these striking words.