If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.
Parallel translations
- KJV And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
- BSB If the home is worthy, let your peace rest on it; but if it is not, let your peace return to you.
- ESV And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
- NKJV If the household is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
- NASB If the house is worthy, see that your blessing of peace comes upon it. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace.
- NLT If it turns out to be a worthy home, let your blessing stand; if it is not, take back the blessing.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Luke 10:6If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
- Ps 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
- 2 Cor 2:16to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
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