Luke 12:49

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I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

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  • Joel 2:30-31 : 30 I will display wonders in the heavens and on the earth: blood, fire, and columns of smoke. 31 The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, purifying the Levites and refining them like gold and silver, so they may bring offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
  • Matt 3:10-12 : 10 Even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. 11 I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
  • Luke 11:53-54 : 53 While He was saying these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him fiercely and to question Him closely about many things, 54 lying in wait to catch Him in something He might say, to accuse Him.
  • Luke 12:51-52 : 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. 52 From now on there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
  • John 9:4 : 4 'As long as it is day, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.'
  • Isa 11:4 : 4 But he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
  • John 11:8-9 : 8 The disciples said to him, 'Rabbi, just now the Jews were trying to stone you, and you're going back there again?' 9 Jesus answered, 'Aren't there twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day, he won't stumble, because he sees by this world's light.' 10 'But if anyone walks at night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.'
  • John 12:17-19 : 17 The crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify about it. 18 This is why the crowd went to meet Him—because they heard that He had performed this sign. 19 Then the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you are achieving nothing. Look, the whole world has gone after Him!"
  • Luke 13:31-33 : 31 At that time, some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, 'Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.' 32 He replied, 'Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’ 33 Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem.
  • Luke 19:39-40 : 39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, 'Teacher, rebuke your disciples.' 40 He answered, 'I tell you, if they were silent, the stones would cry out.'

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  • Luke 12:50-51
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    79%

    50But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is finished!

    51Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

  • Luke 9:54
    72%

    54When James and John, his disciples, saw this, they said, 'Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to destroy them, as Elijah did?'

  • Matt 3:10-12
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    71%

    10Even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

    11I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

    12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

  • Luke 3:16-17
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    16John answered them all by saying, "I baptize you with water, but one who is mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

    17His winnowing fork is in his hand to thoroughly clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

  • Matt 10:34-35
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    34Do not think that I came to bring peace to the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

    35For I came to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

  • John 12:46-49
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    46I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

    47"If anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge them. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

    48The one who rejects Me and does not accept My words has a judge: The word I have spoken will judge them on the last day.

    49For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to speak.

  • Luke 12:46-48
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    46the master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

    47That servant who knew his master’s will and did not prepare or act according to his will, will be beaten with many blows.

    48But the one who did not know and did things deserving of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.

  • Amos 2:5
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    5'So I will send fire upon Judah, and it will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.'

  • Luke 3:9
    68%

    9The axe is already laid at the root of the trees, so every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Matt 5:17
    68%

    17Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

  • John 6:38
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    38'For I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.'

  • Matt 13:49-50
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    49This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous.

    50They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Jer 15:14
    67%

    14I will make your enemies pass into a land you do not know, for a fire is kindled in My anger, and it will burn against you.

  • Matt 13:42
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    42They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Mark 12:9
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    9What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those farmers, and give the vineyard to others.

  • Matt 17:12
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    12But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him. Instead, they did to him whatever they pleased. In the same way, the Son of Man is about to suffer at their hands.'

  • Heb 12:29
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    29for our God is a consuming fire.

  • Isa 66:15
    66%

    15For behold, the Lord will come with fire, and His chariots will be like a whirlwind, to bring down His wrath in fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.

  • Luke 19:27
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    27'But as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.'

  • John 9:39
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    39Jesus said, 'For judgment I came into this world, so that those who are blind may see and those who see may become blind.'

  • Mark 9:48-49
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    48Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

    49For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

  • Matt 7:19
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    19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • 2 Kgs 1:12
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    12Elijah replied, 'If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!' And fire of God came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.

  • Matt 12:28
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    28But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

  • Luke 11:49
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    49Because of this, the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some they will kill, and others they will persecute.'

  • Jer 21:14
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    14I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will consume everything around her.

  • John 15:6
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    6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

  • Amos 1:12
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    12So I will send fire upon Teman, and it will consume the palaces of Bozrah.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14My God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

  • Mark 4:21
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    21He also said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it to be put on a lampstand?

  • Deut 32:22
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    22For a fire has been kindled in My wrath, and it burns to the depths of Sheol. It consumes the earth and its produce and sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.

  • Luke 4:43
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    43But He said to them, 'I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.'

  • John 12:27
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    27Now My soul is troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But this is why I came to this hour.

  • Mark 9:43
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    43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and go into hell, where the fire never goes out.

  • Job 31:12
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    12It is a fire that burns to destruction, consuming all my harvest.

  • Ezek 5:4
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    4Then take some of these again, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From it, a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

  • Jer 17:27
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    27But if you do not obey Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any loads as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem and will not be extinguished.