Luke 12:53

World English Bible (2000)

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

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  • Mic 7:6 : 6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
  • Zech 13:2-6 : 2 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land. 3 It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies. 4 It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive: 5 but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.' 6 One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'
  • Matt 10:21-22 : 21 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. 22 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
  • Matt 24:10 : 10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

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    51Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

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  • Matt 10:34-37
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    34"Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn't come to send peace, but a sword.

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

    36A man's foes will be those of his own household.

    37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

  • Mic 7:6
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    6For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

  • Mark 13:12-13
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    12"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

    13You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

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    21"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

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    54He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens.

  • Luke 14:25-26
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    25Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

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    50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."

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    24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

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    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

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