Verse 25

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.”

Referenced Verses

• Jer 13:23 : 23 But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?
• Matt 7:3-5 : 3 Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? 4 Or how can you say to your brother,‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own? 5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
• Matt 19:24-25 : 24 Again I say, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.” 25 The disciples were greatly astonished when they heard this and said,“Then who can be saved?”
• Matt 23:24 : 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!
• Luke 18:25 : 25 In fact, 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.”