Luke 12:49 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish that it were already kindled!

American Standard Version (1901)

I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already kindled?

Common English Bible

“I came to cast fire upon the earth. How I wish that it was already ablaze!

Catholic Public Domain Version

I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?

Luke 12:49 Cross References

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

Malachi 4:1

“For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Luke 12:48

But he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, shall receive a light beating. Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.

Luke 12:50

I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished!

John 9:4

We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day; night comes, when no one can work.