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Luke 12:51

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

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Luke 12:51 in other translations

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

Luke 12:51 · American Standard Version

Luke 12:51 in context

  1. 49“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
  2. 50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
  3. 51Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
  4. 52For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
  5. 53They 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.”