Luke 10:15
And as for you, Capernaum, who would be exalted even up to Heaven: you shall be submerged into Hell.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
In Context
14Yet truly, Tyre and Sidon will be forgiven more in the judgment than you will be.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:28To where should we ascend? The messengers have terrified our heart by saying: “The multitude is very great, and taller than us. And the cities are great, and the walls extend even to the sky. We have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’
Isaiah 14:13And you said in your heart: ‘I will climb up to heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will be enthroned upon the mountain of the covenant, on the northern parts.
Ezekiel 26:20and when I will have dragged you down with those who descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and when I will have assembled you in the lowest parts of the earth, like the desolate places of antiquity, with those who have been brought down into the pit, so that you will be uninhabited, and moreover, when I will have given glory to the land of the living:
Ezekiel 31:18To whom can you be compared, O famous and sublime one, among the trees of pleasure? Behold, you have been brought down, with the trees of pleasure, to the lowest part of the earth. You will sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who have been slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh, and all his multitude, says the Lord God.”
Ezekiel 32:20They will fall by the sword in the midst of the slain. The sword has been given. They have dragged her down, with all her people.
Amos 9:2If they descend even to the underworld, from there my hand will draw them out; and if they ascend even to the sky, from there will I pull them down.
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 →