Matthew 10:28

Fear Courage and strength Death and loss Judgment

²⁶ Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

²⁷ What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

³⁰ But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
KJV: And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
WEB: Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
ASV: And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
DARBY: And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
BLB: And do not be afraid of those killing the body but not being able to kill the soul. But fear, rather, the One being able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

ÅB: Frykt ikke for de som slår kroppen ihjel, men ikke kan slå sjelen ihjel. Frykt heller for ham som kan ødelegge både sjel og kropp i helvete!
OTB: Vær ikke redde for dem som dreper kroppen, men ikke kan drepe sjelen. Frykt heller Ham som kan ødelegge både sjel og kropp i helvete.
B1930: Og frykt ikke for dem som slår legemet ihjel, men ikke kan slå sjelen ihjel; men frykt heller for ham som kan ødelegge både sjel og legeme i helvede!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Luke 12:4–5
And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
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Isaiah 8:12–13
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
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Revelation 2:10
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
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James 4:12
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
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Romans 8:35–39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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Ecclesiastes 8:12–13
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
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Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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Isaiah 51:12
I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
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