Luke 21:22 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²² For these are times for punishment [i.e., to be inflicted on Jerusalem], so that everything written [i.e., by the prophets] may be fulfilled [i.e., about Jerusalem’s destruction. See Dan. 9:26-27].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² For those are days of vengeance [of rendering full justice or satisfaction], that all things that are written may be fulfilled.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

Common English Bible

²² These are the days of punishment, when everything written will find its fulfillment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² For these are the days of retribution, so that all things may be fulfilled, which have been written.

Luke 21:22 Cross References

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord [surely] knows how to rescue godly people from trying situations, and to keep unrighteous people under [a sentence of] punishment [to be received] on the Judgment Day.

2 Peter 3:7

But, by means of the same word [of God], the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, awaiting the judgment and destruction [by God], along with [its] ungodly people.

Romans 2:5

But your stubbornness and refusal to repent are storing up wrath [i.e., punishment] for yourselves, [to be experienced] on the Day of Wrath [i.e., the Day of Judgment] when God’s just judgment will be revealed.

Matthew 1:22

Now all this happened in order to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet [Isaiah 7:14], saying,