Luke 21:22

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“For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.”

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“For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.”

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KJVPD

“For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.”

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“because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 21:22 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:14If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
  2. Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  3. Deuteronomy 29:19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
  4. Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
  5. Deuteronomy 32:43Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.
  6. Psalms 69:22May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
  7. Psalms 149:7to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
  8. Isaiah 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
  9. Isaiah 61:2to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
  10. Isaiah 63:4For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
  11. Isaiah 65:12I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  12. Jeremiah 51:6Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
  13. 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.
  14. Hosea 9:7The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived— let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
  15. Zechariah 11:1Open your doors, O Lebanon,that the fire may consume your cedars!
  16. Zechariah 14:1Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
  17. Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
  18. Matthew 1:22All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:
  19. Mark 13:19For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
  20. Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  21. 2 Peter 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
  22. 2 Peter 3:7And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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