Luke 10:20
18 So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
21 At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
22 All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
- KJV
- Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
- WEB
- Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
- ASV
- Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
- DARBY
- Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens.
- BLB
- But do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you⁺; but rejoice that your⁺ names have been written in the heavens.”
- ÅB
- dog, gled dere ikke over dette at åndene er dere lydige, men gled dere over at deres navn er oppskrevet i himmelen!
- OTB
- Likevel, gled dere ikke over at åndene adlyder dere, men gled dere over at navnene deres er skrevet i himmelen."
- B1930
- dog, gled eder ikke over dette at åndene er eder lydige, men gled eder over at eders navn er opskrevet i himmelen!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 20:15
And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Read in contextRevelation 20:12
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
Read in contextMatthew 7:22–23
Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
Read in contextHebrews 12:23
in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Read in contextRevelation 21:27
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Read in contextRevelation 3:5
Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
Read in contextDaniel 12:1
“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
Read in contextExodus 32:32
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
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