¹⁸A certain ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”^* ¹⁹Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. ²⁰You know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery. You shall not murder. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness. Honor your father and mother.’ ”^* ²¹He replied, “I have kept all these since my youth.” ²²When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “There is still one thing lacking. Sell all that you own and distribute the money^q to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”^* ²³But when he heard this, he became sad, for he was very rich. ²⁴Jesus looked at him^r and said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!^* ²⁵Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

²⁶Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?” ²⁷He replied, “What is impossible for mortals is possible for God.”^*

²⁸Then Peter said, “Look, we have left our homes and followed you.”^* ²⁹And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God ³⁰who will not get back very much more in this age and in the age to come eternal life.”^*

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Footnotes

qGk lacks the money
rOther ancient authorities read saw that he had become sad

Cross references

*Lk 10:25
*Ex 20:12–16; Deut 5:16–20; Rom 13:9
*Mt 19:21; Lk 12:33
*Prov 11:28
*Gen 18:14; Job 42:2; Jer 32:17; Lk 1:37
*Lk 5:11
*Mt 12:32