Luke 21:12 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹² But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² But previous to all this, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, turning you over to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be led away before kings and governors for My name's sake.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² But before all these things, they shall lay their hands on you, and shall persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

Common English Bible

¹² But before all this occurs, they will take you into custody and harass you because of your faith. They will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to synagogues and into custody, dragging you before kings and governors, because of my name.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² But before all these things, they will lay their hands upon you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name's sake.

Luke 21:12 Cross References

Matthew 22:6

while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.

Matthew 24:8

all this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.

Luke 21:11

there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

John 15:20

Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

John 15:21

But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me.

Acts 22:30

But on the morrow, desiring to know the real reason why the Jews accused him, he unbound him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and he brought Paul down and set him before them.

Acts 5:40

So they took his advice, and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Acts 8:3

But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.

Acts 9:4

And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

1 Peter 2:13

Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,

Revelation 2:10

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.