Luke 10:6

And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest on him; but, if not, it shall return upon you.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

In Context

5Whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house.

7And in that house remain, eating and drinking what they have to give; for the laborer is worthy of his hire; go not from house to house.

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Cross References

Ephesians 2:2in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience:

2 Thessalonians 3:16Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

1 Peter 1:14as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;

Matthew Henry on Luke 10:2-17

The Mission of the Seventy. 1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. 5 And into… Read the whole commentary →

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