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Luke 12:51

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Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

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Luke 12:51 in other translations

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

Luke 12:51 · World English Bible

Luke 12:51 in context

  1. 49I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already kindled?
  2. 50But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
  3. 51Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
  4. 52for there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
  5. 53They shall 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.