Luke 10:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 14:13-15 : 13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north. 14 I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.
  • Matt 4:13 : 13 And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali:
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.
  • Matt 11:23 : 23 And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
  • Deut 1:28 : 28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
  • Isa 5:14 : 14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
  • Luke 7:1-2 : 1 After he had come to the end of all his words in the hearing of the people, he went into Capernaum. 2 And a certain captain had a servant who was very dear to him; this servant was ill and near to death.
  • Luke 13:28 : 28 There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.
  • Luke 16:23 : 23 And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.
  • Jer 51:53 : 53 Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 26:20 : 20 Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.
  • Ezek 28:12-14 : 12 Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful; 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready. 14 I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire.
  • Ezek 31:18 : 18 Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 32:18 : 18 Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld.
  • Ezek 32:20 : 20 Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people.
  • Ezek 32:27 : 27 And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.
  • Amos 9:2-3 : 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down: 3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:
  • Obad 1:4 : 4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Matt 11:20-24
    5 verses
    90%

    20 Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins.

    21 Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads.

    22 But I say to you, It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judging, than for you.

    23 And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.

    24 But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

  • Luke 10:12-14
    3 verses
    81%

    12 I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.

    13 A curse is on you, Chorazin! A curse is on you, Beth-saida! For if such works of power had been done in Tyre and Sidon as have been done in you, they would have been turned from their sins, in days gone by, seated in the dust.

    14 But it will be better for Tyre and Sidon, in the day of judging, than for you.

  • Isa 14:15
    80%

    15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

  • Matt 10:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14 And whoever will not take you in, or give ear to your words, when you go out from that house or that town, put off its dust from your feet.

    15 Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town.

  • Matt 23:12
    73%

    12 And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

  • Luke 10:16
    72%

    16 Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.

  • Isa 5:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

    15 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:

  • Luke 14:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10 But when you come, go and take the lowest seat, so that when the giver of the feast comes, he may say to you, Friend, come up higher; and then you will have honour in the eyes of all the others who are there.

    11 For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

  • Luke 13:3
    71%

    3 I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end.

  • Luke 13:28
    70%

    28 There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.

  • Luke 18:14
    70%

    14 I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

  • Luke 13:5
    70%

    5 I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.

  • Obad 1:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?

    4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

  • Isa 25:12
    70%

    12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • Jas 4:10
    70%

    10 Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

  • Luke 16:15
    69%

    15 And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

  • Luke 19:44
    69%

    44 And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

  • Isa 14:9-13
    5 verses
    69%

    9 The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

    10 They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

    11 Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

    12 How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!

    13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.

  • Mark 6:11
    69%

    11 And whatever place will not take you in and will not give ear to you, when you go away, put off the dust from your feet as a witness against them.

  • Matt 12:37
    69%

    37 For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.

  • Matt 13:42
    69%

    42 And will put them into the fire; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

  • Isa 22:19
    68%

    19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.

  • Matt 8:12
    68%

    12 But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

  • Luke 12:5
    68%

    5 But I will make clear to you of whom you are to be in fear: of him who after death has power to send you to hell; yes, truly I say, Have fear of him.

  • Matt 10:28
    68%

    28 And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

  • Luke 9:5
    68%

    5 And if any people will not take you in, when you go away from that town, put off its dust from your feet for a witness against them.

  • Ezek 26:20
    68%

    20 Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

  • Ezek 28:8
    68%

    8 They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.

  • Matt 25:30
    68%

    30 And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

  • Isa 29:4
    68%

    4 And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.

  • Job 6:21
    68%

    21 So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

  • Matt 23:33
    68%

    33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

  • Isa 26:5
    68%

    5 For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the earth; he makes it low in the dust.

  • Matt 13:50
    68%

    50 And will put them into the fire: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

  • Matt 7:27
    68%

    27 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

  • John 3:13
    68%

    13 And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.