Luke 10:28

Luke 10:28 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
• New International Version (NIV)“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)And he said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live."
• New King James Version (NKJV)And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.”

Context of Luke 10:28

26‘What does God's Law say?’ Jesus asked. ‘What do you understand when you read it?’ 27The man replied, ‘It says that we must love the Lord our God with all our mind and with all our strength. We must love him with all that we are and in all that we think. It also says that we must love other people as much as we love ourselves.’ ‘You have told me the right answer,’ Jesus said. ‘If you do this, you will have true life with God.’ 29But the man wanted to show that he had been right to ask a question. So he asked, ‘Who are the people near to me that I must love?’ 30Jesus answered him with a story: ‘A man was going down the road from Jerusalem to Jericho town. On the way, some men attacked him. They took away all his clothes and they hit him with sticks. He was almost dead when they left him.

Luke 10:28 word by word

Εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ· ὀρθῶς ἀπεκρίθης· τοῦτο ποίει καὶ ζήσῃ.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andδέde · thenG1161
• he saidλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• unto himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• Thou hast answeredἀποκρίνωapokrinomai · to answerG611
• rightὀρθῶςorthōs · correctlyG3723
• thisοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• doποιέωpoieō · to do/make: doG4160
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• thou shalt liveζάωzaō · to liveG2198

Cross-references for Luke 10:28

• Luke 7:43Simon replied, ‘I think that it is the man that needed to pay back the most money.’ ‘You are right,’ Jesus said.
• Mark 12:34Jesus heard that the man had answered well. So Jesus said to him, ‘You are almost ready for God to rule in your life.’ After that, everybody was afraid to ask Jesus any more questions.
• Leviticus 18:5If they obey my rules and my laws, they will continue to live safely. I am the Lord.
• Nehemiah 9:29You warned them to obey your laws. But they refused to listen to you. They did not obey your commands. You had given them rules which would help them to have true life if they obeyed them. But they would not obey your laws. They turned away from you and they continued to do bad things.
• Ezekiel 20:11I gave them my laws and my commands. Anyone who obeyed them would enjoy a good life.
• Matthew 19:17Jesus replied, ‘Why do you ask me about a good thing? Only God is good. Nobody else. If you want to have real life, then you must obey God's laws.’
• Romans 3:19So, we know that God's Law belongs to the Jews. God told them to obey everything that his Law teaches. As a result, nobody can say: ‘God should not punish me.’ Everybody in the world must stand in front of God and he will judge them.
• Romans 10:4God gave his Law to Israel's people for a purpose. But Christ has finished that purpose. So now, every person who believes in Christ becomes right with God.
• Galatians 3:12But the Law does not tell people to trust God. It tells people about all the things that they must do. The Bible says, ‘The person who obeys all the rules in God's Law completely will live’.

Commentaries on Luke 10:28

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-37Verses 25-37 If we speak of eternal life, and the way to it, in a careless manner, we take the name of God in vain. No one will ever love God and his neighbour with any measure of pure, spiritual love, who is not made a partaker of converting grace. But the proud heart of man strives hard against these convictions. Christ gave an instance of a poor Jew in distress, relieved by a good Samaritan. This poor man fell among thieves, who left him about to die…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28Do this and you will live: Jesus was not suggesting that people would be saved by their works. Instead, such love expresses genuine faith and devotion to the Lord.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. he said, &c.--"Right; This do, and life is thine"--laying such emphasis on "this" as to indicate, without expressing it, where the real difficulty to a sinner lay, and thus nonplussing the questioner himself.Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 10:28

• Commandments
• Decalogue
• Duty
• Immortality
• Jesus, the Christ
• Lawyer
• Love
• Neighbor
• Readings, Select
• Self-Righteousness

In the dictionaries

• Careful
• Chance
• Eternal life
• Fall
• Hire
• Mercy
• Trouble
• Jesus Christ
• Johannine Theology
• Law in the New Testament

Commentaries on Luke 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings