Luke 21:16

¹⁴ So make up your mind not to worry beforehand how to defend yourselves.

¹⁵ For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

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.

¹⁸ Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
KJV: And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
WEB: You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.
ASV: But ye shall be delivered up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and [some] of you shall they cause to be put to death.
DARBY: But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death [some] from among you,
BLB: And you⁺ will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death some of you⁺.

ÅB: Men dere skal forrådes endog av foreldre og brødre og frender og venner, og de skal volde noen av dere døden,
OTB: Dere skal bli forrådt til og med av foreldre, søsken, slektninger og venner, og noen av dere skal bli drept.
B1930: Men I skal forrådes endog av foreldre og brødre og frender og venner, og de skal volde nogen av eder døden,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Luke 12:53
They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
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Revelation 6:9
And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.
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Matthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
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Jeremiah 9:4
“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
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Micah 7:5–6
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
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Mark 13:12
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
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Revelation 2:13
I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
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Acts 12:2
He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.
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