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Mark 10:17-31 NIV
17 As Jesus started on his way,
a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good
teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
18 "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is
good—except God alone.
19 You know the commandments: 'Do not
murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false
testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'"
20 "Teacher," he declared, "all these I have kept since I was
a boy."
21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he
said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you
will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
22 At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he
had great wealth.
23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it
is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!"
24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said
again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
25 It is easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the
kingdom of God."
26 The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each
other, "Who then can be saved?"
27 Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is
impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God."
28 Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!"
29 "I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one who has left
home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or
fields for me and the gospel
30 will fail to receive a
hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters,
mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the
age to come, eternal life.
31 But many who are first will
be last, and the last first." |
