Luke 12:56
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you know how to interpret the present time?”
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“You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you know how to interpret the present time?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Ye hypocrites, ye know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven; but how is it that ye know not how to interpret this time?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time--how do ye not make proof of <FI>it<Fi> ?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 12:56 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 12:32From Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their kinsmen at their command.
- Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Haggai 2:7I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 3:1“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
- Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus 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.
- Matthew 16:3and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.
- Matthew 24:32Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.
- Luke 19:42and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
- Acts 3:24Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.
- Galatians 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
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