Luke 12:49

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Not Peace, but Division“I have come to bring fire on the earth– and how I wish it were already kindled!

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  • Mal 4:1 : 1 (3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch.
  • Joel 2:30-31 : 30 I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth– blood, fire, and columns of smoke. 31 The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the LORD comes– that great and terrible day!
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap. 3 He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the LORD a proper offering.
  • Matt 3:10-12 : 10 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and 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 coming after me is more powerful than I am– I am not worthy to carry his sandals! He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”
  • Luke 11:53-54 : 53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things, 54 plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.
  • Luke 12:51-52 : 51 Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 52 For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.
  • John 9:4 : 4 We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.
  • Isa 11:4 : 4 He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.
  • John 11:8-9 : 8 The disciples replied,“Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?” 9 Jesus replied,“Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
  • John 12:17-19 : 17 So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it. 18 Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him. 19 Thus the Pharisees said to one another,“You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”
  • Luke 13:31-33 : 31 Going to Jerusalem At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus,“Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.” 32 But he said to them,“Go and tell that fox,‘Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work. 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’
  • Luke 19:39-40 : 39 But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him,“Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” 40 He answered,“I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!”

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  • Luke 12:50-51
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    50I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is finished!

    51Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

  • Luke 9:54
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    54Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said,“Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

  • Matt 3:10-12
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    10Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and 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 coming after me is more powerful than I am– I am not worthy to carry his sandals! He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

    12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”

  • Luke 3:16-17
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    16John answered them all,“I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming– I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

    17His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

  • Matt 10:34-35
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    34Not Peace, but a Sword“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword!

    35For I have come to set 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 as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

    47If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have 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 him at the last day.

    49For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

  • Luke 12:46-48
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    46then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

    47That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

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

  • Amos 2:5
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    5So I will set Judah on fire, and it will consume Jerusalem’s fortresses.”

  • Luke 3:9
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    9Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

  • Matt 5:17
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    17Fulfillment of the Law and Prophets“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them.

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

  • Matt 13:49-50
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    49It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

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

  • Jer 15:14
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    14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”

  • Matt 13:42
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    42They will throw them into the fiery 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 tenants and give the vineyard to others.

  • Ezek 20:48
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    48And everyone will see that I, the LORD, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”

  • Matt 17:12
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    12And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.”

  • Heb 12:29
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    29For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

  • Isa 66:15
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    15For look, the LORD comes with fire, his chariots come like a windstorm, to reveal his raging anger, his battle cry, and his flaming arrows.

  • Luke 19:27
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    27But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

  • John 9:39
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    39Jesus said,]“For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”

  • Mark 9:48-49
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    48where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.

    49Everyone will be salted with fire.

  • 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 to them,“If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

  • Matt 12:28
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    28But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has already overtaken you.

  • Luke 11:49
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    49For this reason also the wisdom of God said,‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

  • Jer 21:14
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    14But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’ says the LORD.‘I will set fire to your palace; it will burn up everything around it.’”

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

  • Amos 1:12
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    12So I will set Teman on fire; fire will consume Bozrah’s fortresses.”

  • Ps 83:14
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    14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

  • Mark 4:21
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    21The Parable of the Lamp He also said to them,“A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?

  • Deut 32:22
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    22For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

  • Luke 4:43
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    43But Jesus said to them,“I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, for that is what I was sent to do.”

  • John 12:27
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    27“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say?‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come 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 into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.

  • Job 31:12
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    12For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.

  • Ezek 5:4
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    4Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

  • Jer 17:27
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    27But you must obey me and set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. If you disobey, I will set the gates of Jerusalem on fire. It will burn down all the fortified dwellings in Jerusalem and no one will be able to put it out.’”