Luke 21:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.”
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“You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 21:16 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 9:4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
- Jeremiah 12:6Even your brothers— your own father’s household— even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
- Micah 7:5Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
- Matthew 10:21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
- Mark 13:12Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
- Luke 12:53They 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.”
- Acts 7:59While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
- Acts 12:2He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.
- Acts 26:10And that is what I did in Jerusalem. With authority from the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death, I cast my vote against them.
- Revelation 2:13I 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.
- Revelation 6:9And 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.
- Revelation 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
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