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Luke 12:51
Luke 12:51 is verse 51 of Luke chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.
King James Version
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
World English Bible
Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
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Luke 12:49–53 · Berean Standard Bible
49 I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.
52 From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.
53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Luke 12:49I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
Zechariah 11:7So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.
Zechariah 11:8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
Zechariah 11:10Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
Zechariah 11:11It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Zechariah 11:14Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Matthew 10:34Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Matthew 10:36A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
Matthew 24:7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Matthew 24:8All these are the beginning of birth pains.
Matthew 24:9Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
Matthew 24:10At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,