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19 Jesus answered him, `Why do you call me good? Only one is good, and that is God.

20 `You know the laws, "Do not commit adultery. [Do not take a man or woman who is not your husband or wife.] Do not kill. Do not steal. Do not tell lies. Respect your father and your mother." '

21 The man said, `I have kept all these laws since I was a boy.'

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19 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 20 You know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’[a](A)

21 “All these I have kept since I was a boy,” he said.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 18:20 Exodus 20:12-16; Deut. 5:16-20