“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
Parallel translations
- KJV I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
- BSB I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
- NKJV “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
- NASB “I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled!
- NLT “I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning!
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- Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Matt 3:10–12“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
- Mal 3:2–3“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap;
- Luke 12:51–52Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
- Isa 11:4but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
- Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
- John 9:4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
- Luke 13:31–33On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”
- John 12:17–19The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.
- John 11:8–10The disciples told him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?”
- Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
- Luke 19:39–40Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
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