But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
Parallel translations
- KJV But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
- BSB But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
- NKJV But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.
- NASB Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
- NLT I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will be better off on judgment day than you.
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Quick answer
Judgment will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon than for these privileged towns. Accountability rises with the light received.
Overview
Jesus declares that the day of judgment will be more tolerable for pagan Tyre and Sidon than for the towns that rejected Him despite His miracles. This implies degrees of judgment proportioned to one's exposure to the truth. The sober principle warns all who hear the gospel that knowledge unheeded increases guilt.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Matt 11:24But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”
- Heb 10:26–31For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
- Matt 10:15Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
- 1 Jn 4:17In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
- Luke 12:47–48That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
- Matt 12:36I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
- Jer 27:3Then send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
- Jer 25:22and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
- Zech 9:2–3and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
- Heb 6:4–8For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
- Isa 23:1–18The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
- Ezek 29:18Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
- Amos 1:9–10Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn’t remember the brotherly covenant;
- Luke 10:14But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.
- Ezek 26:1–21In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
- Heb 2:3how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
- 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
- 2 Pet 3:7But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
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