Luke 21:15
13 This will be your opportunity to serve as witnesses.
14 So make up your mind not to worry beforehand how to defend yourselves.
For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
17 And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
- KJV
- For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
- WEB
- for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
- ASV
- for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or to gainsay.
- DARBY
- for *I* will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your opposers shall not be able to reply to or resist.
- BLB
- For I will give you⁺ a mouth and wisdom, which all those opposing you⁺ will neither be able to resist nor contradict.
- ÅB
- for jeg skal gi dere munn og visdom som alle deres motstandere ikke kan motstå eller motsi.
- OTB
- For jeg vil gi dere ord og visdom som ingen av deres motstandere skal kunne motstå eller motsi.
- B1930
- for jeg skal gi eder munn og visdom som alle eders motstandere ikke kan motstå eller motsi.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 1:9
Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
Read in contextEphesians 6:19
Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will boldly make known the mystery of the gospel,
Read in contextLuke 12:12
For at that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you should say.”
Read in contextActs 6:10
but they could not stand up to his wisdom or the Spirit by whom he spoke.
Read in contextExodus 4:11–12
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Read in contextColossians 4:3–4
as you pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
Read in context2 Timothy 4:16–17
At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
Read in contextLuke 24:45
Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
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