Luke 10:20

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“Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.””

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“Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 10:20 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 32:32Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
  2. Psalms 69:28May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
  3. Isaiah 4:3Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy— all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—
  4. Ezekiel 13:9My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.
  5. Daniel 12:1“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
  6. Matthew 7:22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
  7. Matthew 10:1And calling His twelve disciples to Him, Jesus gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could drive them out and heal every disease and sickness.
  8. Matthew 26:24The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
  9. Matthew 27:5So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
  10. 1 Corinthians 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
  11. Philippians 4:3Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have labored with me for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.
  12. Hebrews 12:23in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
  13. Revelation 3:5Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
  14. Revelation 13:8And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.
  15. Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
  16. Revelation 20:15And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
  17. Revelation 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

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