Luke 18:18–30

THE RICH YOUNG RULER

¹⁸A^az ruler^ba asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”^bb

¹⁹“Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone. ²⁰You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; honor your father and mother.”^Ea

²¹“I have kept all these from my youth,” he said.

²²When Jesus heard this, he told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell all you have and distribute it to the poor,^b and you will have treasure in heaven.^c Then come, follow me.”^d

²³After he heard this, he became extremely sad,^e because he was very rich.

POSSESSIONS AND THE KINGDOM

²⁴Seeing that he became sad,^F Jesus said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! ²⁵For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

²⁶Those who heard this asked, “Then who can be saved?”^f

²⁷He replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”^g

²⁸Then Peter said, “Look, we have left what we had and followed^h you.”

²⁹So he said to them, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left a house, wife or brothers or sisters, parents or children because of the kingdom of God, ³⁰who will not receive many times more at this time,ⁱ and eternal life in the age to come.”