Mark 4:31
Modern Translations
New International Version
It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.

New Living Translation
It is like a mustard seed planted in the ground. It is the smallest of all seeds,

English Standard Version
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,

Berean Study Bible
It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds sown upon the earth.

New American Standard Bible
It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is the smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil,

NASB 1995
"It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,

NASB 1977
It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,

Amplified Bible
It is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the ground, even though it is smaller than all the [other] seeds that are [sown] on the soil,

Christian Standard Bible
It’s like a mustard seed that, when sown upon the soil, is the smallest of all the seeds on the ground.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It's like a mustard seed that, when sown in the soil, is smaller than all the seeds on the ground.

Contemporary English Version
It is like what happens when a mustard seed is planted in the ground. It is the smallest seed in all the world.

Good News Translation
It is like this. A man takes a mustard seed, the smallest seed in the world, and plants it in the ground.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It's like a mustard seed planted in the ground. The mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds on earth.

International Standard Version
It's like a mustard seed planted in the ground. Although it's the smallest of all the seeds on earth,

NET Bible
It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground--
Classic Translations
King James Bible
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

New King James Version
It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;

King James 2000 Bible
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

New Heart English Bible
It's like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the soil, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the soil,

World English Bible
It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

American King James Version
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

American Standard Version
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,

A Faithful Version
It is like a tiny mustard seed, which, when it has been sown upon the earth, is less than all the seeds that are upon the earth

Darby Bible Translation
As to a grain of mustard [seed], which, when it is sown upon the earth, is less than all seeds which are upon the earth,

English Revised Version
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,

Webster's Bible Translation
It is like a grain of mustard-seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
It is like a graine of mustarde seede, which when it is sowen in the earth, is the least of all seedes that be in the earth:

Bishops' Bible of 1568
It is like a grayne of mustarde seede, whiche when it is sowen in the earth, is lesse then all seedes that be in the earth.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
It is like a grayne of mustarde sede, which wha it is sowe vpo the londe, is the leest amonge all sedes of the earth.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
It is lyke a grayne of mustard seed which when it is sowe in the erth is the leest of all seedes that be in the erth:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;

Berean Literal Bible
As a grain of mustard, which, when it has been sown upon the earth, is smallest of all the seeds that are upon the earth,

Young's Literal Translation
As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;

Smith's Literal Translation
As a kernel of mustard, which, when it be sown in the earth, is smaller than all seeds upon the earth:

Literal Emphasis Translation
As to a grain of mustard, which, when it has been sown upon the earth, is smallest of all the seeds which are upon the earth,

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth:

Catholic Public Domain Version
It is like a grain of mustard seed which, when it has been sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds which are in the earth.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“It is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the herb seeds on the earth.”

Lamsa Bible
It is just like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
It is like a grain of mustard, which, when it is sown in the ground, is less than all seeds that are in the ground;

Godbey New Testament
Tis like a grain of mustard seed, which when it may be sown upon the earth, is the smallest of all seeds which are upon the earth,

Haweis New Testament
It is like a grain of mustard, which when it is sown in the earth, is among the least of all the seeds which are upon the earth:

Mace New Testament
it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which when sown in the earth, is less than any other grain that is sown there.

Weymouth New Testament
It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;

Worrell New Testament
It is like to a grain of mustard, which when it is sown upon the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,

Worsley New Testament
It is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which when it is sown in the ground, is one of the lest of all the seeds on the earth:
















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