Luke 12:52 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵² For from now on there will be a household of five persons divided [against one another], three against two and two against three.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵² for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵² For from now on in one house there will be five divided [among themselves], three against two and two against three.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵² for there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

Common English Bible

⁵² From now on, a household of five will be divided—three against two and two against three.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵² For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three.

Luke 12:52 Cross References

Acts 28:24

And some people believed what Paul said and some refused to believe.

John 16:2

The Jewish authorities will expel you from their synagogues. In fact, the time will come when whoever kills you will think he is doing a service to God.

John 9:16

Some of the Pharisees then said, “The man who did this is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath day.” But other people said, “How could a man who is a sinner do such [miraculous] signs?” And the people were divided among themselves [over the issue].

Luke 12:51

Do you think that I came to bring [only] peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division instead.

Luke 12:53

And a father will be divided against his son and the son against his father; a mother [will be divided] against her daughter and the daughter against her mother; a mother-in-law [will be divided] against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”